FORESTRY SCHOOL

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31922, 25 February 1969, Page 16

FORESTRY SCHOOL

Three appointments to the new School of Forestry at the University of Canterbury were announced by the ViceChancellor (Professor N. C. Phillips) at a meeting of the University council yesterday.

The first senior lecturer is Dr A. G. D. Whyte, at present scientific officer at the Forest Research Institute, Rotorua. Dr Whyte, who has specialised in the application of computer science to forest management, gradu-

ated B.Sc. (forestry) with honours from the University of Aberdeen in 1960, and completed his Ph.D. there in 1963. Before taking up a research post with the Forest Research Institute in 1964, Dr Whyte studied forestry at Oxford University, and was awarded a Diploma in Forestry. Mr D. B. McConchie, marketing officer for New Zealand Forest Products, Ltd, Petone, has been appointed a lecturer. Mr McConchie, who is 36, holds a B.Sc., Dip For. (Canberra). He has specialised in forest economics.

Mr J. E. Barker, who is 31, and is completing a Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley, in the field of tree physiology, has also been appointed a lecturer. A Canadian, Mr Barker graduated B.Sc. in forestry from the University of British Columbia in 1959, and spent four years as an industrial forester before going to Berkeley, where he took an M.Sc. degree in forest genetics.