UNIVERSITY CHAIRS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 109, 11 May 1933, Page 11

UNIVERSITY CHAIRS

VACANCIES AT AUCKLAND PROFESSORS RETIRING. [ Per Press Association. ] AUCKLAND, May 9. Applications are to be invited to fill four professorial chairs at Auckland University College. Two of the chairs, those of history and classics, are already vacant. Since tho 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. Blaiklock. Under the college’s compulsory retiring 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, in the chair of mathematics. Both professors were appointed in 1894. The College Council’s Educational Committee reported at a meeting of the council that in the case of the chair of mathematics an endeavour has been made by the professors on tho committee to permit the present occupant a further year in office. Their motion, however, was defeated by five votes to two. The committee therefore recommended that tho present retiring age remain, and that applications bo invited to fill the four chairs. It was decided to act on tho recommendation.