BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

Press, Volume CX, Issue 32322, 13 June 1970, Page 1

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

Sir Alan Danks has been chairman of the University; Grants Committee since 1966. He is widely known as anj economist, public speaker,) broadcaster and writer on current events. He spent practically the whole of his career (from 1943 to 1966) in the economics department of the University of Canterbury. He graduated from the university, master of arts with equivalent first-class honours in economics in 1938. After a brief period as a teacher he joined the economics department in 1943 and in 1962 was appointed professor of economics. In 1964 he became Pro-Viee-Chancellor of the university. In 1961 Sir Alan Danks was appointed a member of the University Grants Committee In 1948 he studied for a year at the London School of

■ Economics and the next year; was a visiting lecturer at the! I University of Washington. Sir Alan Danks served on •the North Canterbury Hospital Board from 1956 to 1966. •At one period he was the ! board’s deputy chairman and has also been chairman of its finance committee. He was actively involved in the building of Princess Margaret Hospital. Sir Alan Danks is also a; member, nominated by the) •Cabinet, of the Special Committee on Pharmaceutical i Benefits, and is a member of ;the Royal Commission on Social Security Services. ..Among other Government 'i advisory committees on which he has served are those on the care of the aged, and provisional P.A.Y.E. taxation. Mr J. K. McAlpine is the chairman of the National Ports Authority. He was the ! i National member of Parlia-

ment for Selwyn from 1946 to 1966. and entered the Cabinet in 1954 when he held the portfolios of Railways. Labour. Mines and Marine. Mr McAlpine was best known in recent years as the Minister of Civil Aviation. Transport, and Railways. He has served on the Canterbury Progress League, the Arthur’s Pass National Park Board, • the Lincoln College Council, and the Lyttelton Harbour Board.

j Mr A. S. Murray has been ! chairman of the Canterbury Education Board since 1962 and is a former president of • the New Zealand Education ■ Boards’ Association. He joined the board in 1954 and ■ later served as chairman of its professional committee and a member of the district committee. Mr 'Murray is a former member •of the Cheviot County Council and has been active in i local affairs for many years.