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Young Achiever Success in this year’s A.G.C. Young Achiever, Awards has had an added’ benefit for a University of Canterbury doctoral student, Andrew Garner. Publicity about his planned studies in management cybernetics has led to the donation of $3OOO worth of computer
software needed for his Ph.D research project. Andrew, a student in the university’s mechanical engineering department, was granted the award so he could travel to Canada and Europe to meet with users of the cybernetic model he is studying. Cybernetics is the scientific study of information and control, and can be applid to organisations and businesses as well as animals and humans. Andrew’s aim is to develop a fully integrated management system for
small manufacturing systems. Community service . New Zealand scouts will be carrying ,on the tradition of doing good turns for the benefit of their community during community service week, from October 1 to 8. The newly appointed chief executive commissioner, Mr Paul Outtrim, says that caring for their communities and the people in them is basic to a scout’s code of behaviour. • '
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