DR. C. C. FARR
A Press Association message from Christchurch reports the death of Dr. Clinton Coleridge Farr, a leading figure in the scientific life of New Zealand and Australia. Dr. Farr, who was in his 77th year, was born in Adelaide, the son of*! Archdeacon Farr, headmaster of St. Peter's Collegiate School, where he began his education. He had a distinguished scholastic career in science and engineering, and held posts at Sydney and Adelaide Universities. In 1898 he undertook a magnetic survey of New Zealand at the request of the Government, and continued this work until 1904, establishing the magnetic observatory at Christchurch. Joining the staff of Canterbury College in 1904 as lecturer in Physics and Surveying, he became Professor of Physics there in 1910. and remained in that post m> til 1936.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 22, 27 January 1943, Page 3
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