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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12816, 16 July 1912, Page 7

•ftiV,,Jioj l >.ei;t iSchaohjiei', : professor of political economy at the iUnfversity of Jena, who. died there oa March 7 last, fjronv blood-poisoning following an operation for appendicitis, by his will endowed the University of Jena with 20,000 . jnarlo, ; ; the; . i n tere/j t jpf „which is to be devoted, ty Austy&han .sociological research. Under th,e bonditJQns. of Uhe will, every sixth year a student of that university is to visft/' Australia., ax)d,publish a report on 1 hi? observa.tions there. Dr. Schachner made a. .personal study of Austi-aliart' social conditions, and visited the Commonwealth and New Zealand m 1906 and 1907. He -worked incognito m Queensland m the shearing sHiedaj m, Victoria <-na a goldiMmtner: -a Poseidon, and as a; mechanic at. the Sunshine Harvester Works/ and m Newcastle as a collier. The results of oibserva-tions he ptiblished m three works m Grerman, extracts from which have.,, appeared m., the Melbourne press. Last -year Professor Schachnev marii!' an Australian lady. He haa left his widow well pi-ovided fov.