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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIV, Issue 21052, 2 June 1938, Page 8

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Mr O. Paul Gabites, St. Peter’s School. Cambridge, who has been visiting Timaru, has returned north. Mr A. O. Heany, of 'Wellington, secretary of the Associated Chambers of Commerce of New Zealand, is visiting Timaru and is staying at the Grosvenor. Reference to the death of Mr J. Scott Main, a former curator ranger of the South Canterbury Acclimatisation Society, was made at the annual meeting of the Society on Tuesday. The death of Mr G. Lambert was also referred to. Mr John Ord Shearer, M.A. (N.Z.), lecturer in economics in the University of Western Australia, Perth, has been appointed lecturer in 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 at Auckland in 1928, winning the 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 object 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 al 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 laboratory caretaker and also as 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.