ELECTED CHAIRMAN
COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITIES’ COUNCIL
NEW ZEALANDER HONOURED PA WELLINGTON, NoV. 17. The University of New Zealand says it has been announced from London that the Vice-chancellor of the University of New Zealand, Professor I. A. Gordon, has been elected chairman of the Executive Council of the Association of Universities of the British Commonwealth, succeeding Lord Harlech, Pro-chancellor of the University of Wales. ■ Professor Gordon was nominated for the chairmanship by the principal of the University of London. The association (formerly the Universities’ Bureau of the British Empire) has, since its foundation in 1912, been the central organisation for university affairs within the British Commonwealth and, with the exception of the war years, held five-yearly conferences of the universities of the United Kingdom, the dominions and colonies. Professor Gordon, who is the first chairman of the council to be elected from outside the United Kingdom, represented the University of New Zealand at the conference held last year in the Universities of Bristol and Oxford.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27241, 18 November 1949, Page 6
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