University Salaries
Sir, —I read with interest and appreciation your article on university salaries in-“ The Press” this morning. There was one factor of importance, however, which you omitted to mention. At A.N.Z.A.A.S. congress and other places where scientists congregate the principal worry of New Zealand scientists is very much less salaries and very much more customs licences. Scientific equipment is the tool of trade of the scientist and just as a carpenter who was prohibited from obtaining a hammer in New Zealand would be forced to leave, so a scientist who is denied his specialised tools must go also. A country which produces cheese in quantities and which can afford customs licences to import cheese, a country which produces leather in large quantities and which can afford to import shoes, can surely afford to equip its scientists. This, I feel, is a matter on which the Government might very well have another thought.—Vours, etc., ALAN CROWTHER, Psychology and Sociology Department, University of Canterbury. January 26, 1968.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31588, 27 January 1968, Page 12
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