NATIVE ECONOMICS EXPERT

NZ Truth, Issue 1199, 22 November 1928, Page 6

NATIVE ECONOMICS EXPERT

THE subject of economics is one on which very few people are qualified to speak, but m Professor Bernard Edward Murphy, Wellington has a man who can teach the world something on this intriguing science. His treatise, "Outlines of Economics," is widely known and recognized as an authority on the subject. Professor "Barney", Murphy holds down the Chair of Economics at the Wellington University. He does not dogmatise and. try to force his ideas clown your thVoat as incontrovertible facts; he is always open to correction. Something of a bookworm, necessarily, he is, nevertheless, popular with students, and "Barney" knows how to carry his years well. Still m the forties, he looks years younger than he really is, and by comparison with the other "profs" at the university, he is the youngest man on the job. Professor Murphy, however, has not confined his thirst for knowledge to' one particular line. He carries after his name the letters

M.A., LL.B., B. Commerce and he is a Fellow of the Royal Economic Society. Tucked away m his head, also, is a wealth of information concerning "dead" languages, and his fluency of. speech m this direction is by no means negligible. "Barney" is a native of New Zealand, and received the foundation of his knowledge at the Otago Boys' High School; of which seat of learning he was the dux m 1902. The Otago and Wellington Universities also saw him "swatting." For years he practised as a solicitor at Feilding, but later turned his scholastic attainments into other channels, and was for, some time teaching with Banks Commercial College. His fine racy style of address adds popularity to his lectures, and if ever he lapses into biting sarcasm, it has the saving grace of humor. A spontaneous and forceful speaker, he is withal a man of modest taste and, does not focus too well m the timelight.