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I Hospital Bd Appointments LOCUM RESIDENT MEDICAL OFFICER WE require a locum RMO at our Base Hospital from September until November 27, 1989. Applicants must be second year House Surgeons or Senior House Officers. RESIDENT MEDICAL OFFICER 1989/90 Applications are now open for a position at Wanganui Base Hospital for 1989/90. Applicants must be registered Medical Officers. These positions can run consecutively. Job descriptions and application forms are available or both positions from the Personnel Officer, Wanganui Area Health Board, P.O. Box 649, Wanganui.

_________ JEducation VacanciesL _____________ UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO HAMILTON The University is seeking a scholar with proven ability to provide academic leadership in the teaching and research activities of the Department of Economics. This vacancy is due to the pending retirement of Professor J T Ward. The Department is administratively part of the School of Management Studies and also plays an important role within the School of Social Sciences. It has grown rapidly in recent years, and currently has an academic staff of 16. Members of the Department have teaching and research interests covering mainstream economics, econometrics and business economics. The Department has well-established undergraduate and graduate programmes and provides research supervision for masters and doctoral candidates. As the Department's most senior staff member, the appointee may be required to serve as Chairperson of the Department for a fixed term. The salary for professors is within the range $NZ76,000 to $NZ95,000. The appointee would be expected to take up the position early in 1990 or as soon as possible thereafter. Informal enquiries can be made to the Dean of the School of Management Studies (telephone (064) 71 384 016, Fax (064) 71 384 063, or Electronic Mail: b.smith@waikato.ac.nz (Internet). The method of application and conditions of appointment are available from the Academic Staff Registrar, University of Waikato, Private Bag, Hamilton, New Zealand, (Fax 064 71 560 135), Electronic Mail: h.leslie.@waikato.a.c.nz (Internet). The reference number is AB9/47 and applications close on 31 October 1989. The University welcomes applications from suitable people regardless of race, creed, marital status or disability. LECTURER IN HORTICULTURAL MANAGEMENT Applications are invited for this post in the Department of Agricultural and Horticultural Systems. The appointee will be required to undertake research and teaching in the undergraduate and graduate programmes offered by the Department. The Department has an establishment of 14 and is one of eight academic Departments of the Faculty of Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences. The Faculty offers three and four years degree programmes | and Masters and Doctoral programmes in both agriculture and | horticulture. The University has a modern VAX-based computer I system with a campus-wide network. Micro computers are available | to all members of the Department. Applicants should have a minimum of a Masters degree in agricultural economics/farm management/production economics or equivalent with several years teaching, research and/or horticultural management consulting experience. Preference will be given to applicants who have completed or are about to complete a doctorate in a relevant field of study. | The position is for a fixed term of three years commencing | December 1989. t The current salary range for lecturers is $35,000 - $46,000 per | annum. h Further details of the position can be obtained from Professor | Frank Anderson, Head of Department, telephone 69-099 extension | 8185 or Fax (063) 505-606. | Closing date 1 November 1989. | POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOW I IN ENERGY ENGINEERING | The Department of Production Technology offers this one year | postdoctoral research opportunity for the commercial development | of its research programmes in Energy Cost Management and Energy | Demand Modelling. An Energy Cost Management Expert System, | which has been developed over the last ten years in association with | Price Waterhouse in the United Kingdom now needs development for | commercialisation, in response to pressing demand both within New Zealand and in world wide markets. The work on demand forecasting particularly related to electricity has been a major research interest over the past five years and exciting possibilities now exist for a complete integration of the more theoretical demand forecasting techniques with those of direct cost and use management at the operations level. The research fellow will provide a direct input to the creation of a fully developed commercial software package for direct marketing. It is envisaged that the work will provide an interesting combination of data-base and information engineering with the more usual engineering aspects of energy analysis applied to both commercial and industrial users. Closing date 30 November 1989. Further details of the above positions together with Conditions of Appointment are obtainable from Mrs V B Bretherton, Personnel Section, to whom applications, including a full curriculum vitae and the names of three referees should be sent before the closing date specified. B.R.H. Monks Registrar We are Equal Opportunity Employer Palmerston North • Telephone (063) 69-099