RESEARCH WORKER ON COAL MINING
AUCKLAND, This Day (P.A.).— Professor J. Ivon Graham, a distinguished research worker on coal mining in Britain, arrived in the Aorangi from Vancouver this afternoon to become the first Professor of Coal Mining at the Otago School of Mines. Before accepting this appointment he was adviser to the National Coal Board in Britain. Professor Graham travelled to New Zealand through, America, where he renewed his former per«sonal association with the Bureau of Mines in Washington and Pittsburg. His work in Otago will include some specialised teaching in coal mining, but he will be free the greater part of his time to study New Zealand coal-mining conditions, and to initiate research in co-operation with the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 17 August 1949, Page 4
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