ECONOMIC RESEARCH

Greymouth Evening Star, 30 November 1926, Page 2

ECONOMIC RESEARCH

PROFESSOR CONDLIFFE’S POST. (Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, November 29. Professor J. B. Condliffe, Dean of the Faculty, of Commerce and Law at Canterbury College, has been appointed Chief Research Officer of the Institute of Pacific Relations. It is understood that the appointment is for three years and that the salary is particularly substantial. The headquarters of the Institute will be at Honolulu. Professor Condliffe has made a life study of Pacific problems, and at the beginning of this year he attended the conference representing all the countries of the Pacific at Honolulu. x Mr A. H. Tocker, M.A., Assistant Lecturer on Economics at the Canterbury College, has been appointed to succeed Professor Condliffe as Dean of the Faculty of Law and Commerce. Professor Condliffe was born at Melbourne in 1891, but arrived in Christchurch as a small boy. He attended the West Christchurch school and graduated at Canterbury College. After serving with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, ; he entered Gonville and Cains College (Cambridge),' as an N.Z.E.F. scholar, and holder of the Sir Thomas Gresham Scholarship. Upon his return to the Dominion, he was appointed to the Chair of Economics at Canterbury College. Recently he was appointed to succeed Professor J. Hight as Dean of the Faculty of Commerce and Law. MR BELSHAW’S APPOINTMENT. AUCKLAND, November 29. Mr Horace Belshaw, M.A., (New Zealand), Ph.D., (Cambridge), late of Canterbury College, and now Lee; turer at Cambridge University, has been appointed the first Professor of Economics at the Auckland University College. Mr Belshaw is well-known on the West Coast, having resided at Greymouth a few years ago, when he was in charge; of the .W.E.A. classes here.