LECTURER IN ECONOMICS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23516, 2 June 1938, Page 15

LECTURER IN ECONOMICS

VICTORIA COLLEGE APPOINTMENT NEW ZEALANDER’S BRILLIANT CAREER (Pee United Press Association) WELLINGTON, June 1. Mr John Ord Shearer, M.A. (N.Z.), lecturer in economics in the University of Western Australia. Perth, has been appointed lecture rin the department of economics at Victoria University College, Wellington, by the College Council. , Mr Shearer is a New Zealander and a graduate of Auckland University College. He took his B.A. degree in Auckland in 1928. winning a University of New Zealand senior scholarship in economics. In 1930 he graduated M.A., with first-class honours in economics, his thesis being entitled “ Control of Monopoly in New Zealand.” During 1931 he pursued a general study of this subject at the University of Cambridge, England, consequent on the award' of a research fellowship by the Rockefeller Foundation. Mr Shearer has held various lecturing positions in New Zealand. The new lecturer at Victoria College is a product of the Workers’ Educational Association. In 1924, as a member of a W.E.A. class, he was awarded a university bursary enabling him to proceed to Auckland University College. While there he worked as a laboratory caretaker and also as a cleaner at the Art Gallery to enable him to pay his way through the university. His brilliant work in economics was rewarded when he was awarded a research fellowship at Cambridge.