IRISH COAL PROFESSOR APPOINTED TO OTAGO UNIVERSITY

Grey River Argus, 23 February 1949, Page 7

IRISH COAL PROFESSOR APPOINTED TO OTAGO UNIVERSITY

DUNEDIN, Feb. 22. The first professor of coal mining at the Otago School of Mines will be Professor J. Ivon Graham, a 60-year-old Irishman, distinguished research workers, examiner and/ adviser on coal mining in Britain, whose .. appointment was confirmed by the Council of the University of Otago to-dav. Since last April he has been adviser on scientific aspects of underground problems to the National Coal Board of England, a post to which he was appointed from director of environmental research for the board. “The university and the industry in New Zealand are fortunate in being able to attract a so well-known authority,” said Dr. Gordon Williams, director of the School of Mines .“The Otago School of Mines has always had a high reputation in the metal mining world and with Professor Graham’s appointment its reputation in the coal mining world will become equally high.” Froiessor Graham plans to pass through America on his way to New Zealand to renew his former personal association with the Bureau of Mines at Washington and Pittsburgh and get first- hand knowledge of the recent developments in the subjects which are his special interests. His duties at the School of Mines will in—le some specialised teaching in coal mining, but he will be free for the greater part of his time to studv New Zealand coal-mining conditions and initiate research in coordination with the research activities of the Department of Scientific and Industrial - Research.