University department on market

Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33933, 28 August 1975, Page 18

University department on market

(N.Z. Press Assn—Copyright) MANCHESTER. The academic staff of the control-system centre at Manchester University’s institute of science and technology are offering their expertise to the highest foreign bidder. In a protest against what Dr G. C. Barney, senior lecturer at the centre, calls the serious state of British university finances, the staff has placed the following advertisement in an educational journal: “For sale: A department of control engineering. “Applications should come from governments and universities who are fully committed to the worth of university research and teaching, and have a respect for the professional engineer in society.” The package deal includes one professor, three senior lecturers, and eight lecturers, mainly involved in research into ways of controlling economic or physical systems. The principal of the institute, Lord Bowden, described the advertisement "a bit daft,” but said that he did not intend to discipline the dons.

New Plymouth well The drilling of the Republic Petroleum Corporation, Ltd’s, New Plymouth No. 1 well was continuing at 2790 feet at Port Taranaki, the general manager (Mr G. W. West) reported yesterday. Dividend raised Paynter and Dixon Industries, Ltd, the Sydney-based design and construction group, group net profit rose 33.7 per cent to sAustlm in the year to June 30. The Anal i dividend is being raised to 9.5 per cent, making a total I of 17 per cent for the year.