PROFESSORIAL CHAIRS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21948, 9 May 1933, Page 8

PROFESSORIAL CHAIRS

AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE FOUR VACANCIES CREATED. (Special to Daily Times.) AUCKLAND, May 8. Applications are to be invited to fill four professorial chairs at the Auckland University,College. Two of the chairs—those of history and classics—-are already vacant.

Since the departure from New Zealand of Professor J. P. Grossman, the chair of history has been temporarily filled by Mr W. T. G. Airey, while the chair of classics, rendered vacant by the death of Professor A. C. Paterson, is temporarily occupied by Mr E. M. Blaiklock. Under the college's rule which fixes a compulsory retirinc age of 65, two other professors will retire at the end of next February—Professor C. W. Egerton. who occupies the chair of English, and Professor H. W. Segar, occupant of the chair of mathematics. Both professor* were appointed in 1894. The College Council's Education Committee reported at a meeting of the council that in the case of the chair of mathematics an endeavour bad beeri made by the professors on the committee to permit the present occupant to' remain for a further year in office. Their motion, however, was defeated by five votes to two. The committee therefore recommended that the present retiring age should remain, and that application should he invited to fill the four chairs. It was decided to act on the recommendation.