VACANT CHAIRS

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 108, 10 May 1933, Page 5

VACANT CHAIRS

AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY

; AUCKLAND, May 8. Applications are to be invited to fill four; professorial chairs' ■' at, Auckland University College. ••■..■•■ I Two of the chairs, those of history and classics, are already vacant. Since the departure from New Zealand of Professor J. P< Grossman, the chair of has been, temporarily filled by Mr. W. T. G. Airey, while the chair of classics, rendered vacant by the, death of Professor A. C. Paterson, is I temporarily' occupied by Mr. E. M. i Blaiklock. Under the college's com-; pulsory retiring age of 65, two other professors will retire at the end of | next February—Professor C. W. Eger-1 ton, who occupies the chair of Eng-1 lish, and Professor H. W. Se|ar, in the chair of mathematics. Both professors were appointed in 1894. ' The College Council's Educational Committee reported :at a meeting of the council, that in the case of the chair of mathematics, an endeavour had been made by the professors on1 the committee to permit the present | occupant a further year in office. Their motion, however, was defeated by five votes to two. The committee therefore recommended that the present retiring age remain, and that applications be invited to fill the four chairs. It was decided to act on. the recommendation. •