BRILLIANT SCHOLASTIC CAREER

Evening Star, Issue 22973, 2 June 1938, Page 19

BRILLIANT SCHOLASTIC CAREER

economics lecturer at VICTORIA COLLEGE [Pan United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, Juno 1. Mr John Ord Shearer, M.A. (N.Z.), lecturer in economies in the University of Western Australia, Perth, lias been appointed lecturer in the department of economics at Victoria University College, Wellington, by the College Council.

Mr Shearer is a. New Zealander and a graduate of Auckland University Chlletre. He took his B.A. degree m Auckland in 1928, wining a "University of New Zealand senior scholarship in economics. In 1930 he graduated M.A., with first class honours in economics, his thesis beipg entitled ‘ Control of Monopoly in New Zealand. Muring 1931 he pursued a general study oi this .subject at the- University of Cambridge. England, consequent on the of a research fellowship by the Rockefeller Foundation. Mr Shearer has held various lecturing positions in New Zealand. . ~ The new lecturer at victoria College is a product of the Workers’ Educational Association. In 1924, as a member of a W.E.A. class, he was, awarded a university bursary enabling him to proceed to Auckland University College. While there he worked as a

laboratory caretaker and also as a cleaner at the Art Gallery to enable him to pay his way through the university. Hi’s brilliant work in economics was rewarded when he was awarded a research fellowship at Cambridge.