SEEKING KNOWLEDGE

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 17, 14 October 1933, Page 6

SEEKING KNOWLEDGE

Hindu Student’s Tour

RURAL ECONOMICS

In continuation of his world tour for the purpose of examining rural credits and marketing organisations in Empire countries, a Hindu research student, Mr. A. T. Qureshi, M.A., has for the past week or two been in New Zealand. He is now visiting Wellington, having already accumulated a considerable amount of data on his subject with reference to New Zealand conditions. This will be included in a book to be published by the London University on his return to England. Mr. Qureshi, who is travelling on a scholarship awarded by the University Bureau of the British Empire, intends spending a further three weeks or so in New Zealand interviewing those connected witli the dairy industry and studying agricultural development, with especial regard to its financial aspects. He has already visited Australia, which he will revisit before returning to London, via South Africa. A questionnaire, compiled by Mr. Qureshi, which he wishes to place before the New Zealand farmer in order to complete his inquiries, is as follows: “(1) What are the various requirements for which a farmer has to borrow money? (2) What are the various agencies which supply him with credit facilities? (3) On what securities does lie borrow money, and what rate of interest does he pay? (4) Is he satified with the present credit facilities? If not, what suggestions has he to make?” Mr. Qureshi, whose address is care of Thomas Cook and Sons, was educated at the University of Punjab, at Lahore. In 1932 he entered on a postgraduate course at the University of London, and after his return there he will complete another two years’ studies and sit for his Ph.D. (Economics) degree.