Economists to meet in N.Z.

Press, 4 January 1978, Page 14

Economists to meet in N.Z.

“Classroom Challenge 1980” is the theme of this year’s Australasian Commercial and Economics Teachers Association conference — at the University of Canterbury between January 8 and 13. About 370 teachers and associates from all parts of Australia and New Zealand will be attending the confers ence — the ninth held by the association. All previous eight conferences have been held in Australia.

After a day of social activities on January 8, the conference will open officially on the Monday with an address by Professor R. F. Warmke, an author and “consumer-economic educationist” from Ohio University.

The association caters for teachers of economics, accounting, economic studies, consumer education, legal studies, and secretarial studies. To mark the conference, the Post Office has designed a special postmark, and a special post box will be ? laced in the Ngaio Marsh heatre On January 9. The daily conference sessions will include a talk on the economics of the early Maori by Mr W. Edwards, of the Maori Affairs Department; a hangi, and an explanation of Maori customs; a talk on the role of economics and commerce in the changing curriculum, by Mr W. L. Renwick, the Director-General of Education; and the association’s annual meeting.