FORMER WANGANUI BOY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 221, 19 September 1941, Page 4

FORMER WANGANUI BOY

POSITION WITH BOARD OF TRADE IN BRITAIN MR. C. M. P. BROWN'S APPOINTMENT Formerly assistant economic adviser to the Midland Bank, England, but recently with a firm of consulting engineers in London. Mr. C. M. P. (Brown. M.A. (N.Zb, M.Sc. (Camb.), la former Wanganui boy, has been attached to the industrial supplies department of the Board of Trade in Britain. Included in the activities of this department are the rationing of steel and the control of general wartime industrial n“eds.

A son of Mr; and Mrs. C. P. Brown, of Wanganui, Mr. C. M. P. Brown is 27 years old. and ho was educated at the Hurworth Preparatory School (the predecessor to St. George's School) and the Wanganui Collegiate School (1928-31), Entering Victoria University College with a Senior National Scholarship, he took firstclass honours in economics, winning a senior New Zealand University Scholarship in that subject. He took a leading part in debating, was editor of the Victoria University College journal “Smad,” and was twice the college nominee for a Rhodes Scholarship. After a short term on The Dominion. to which he contributed special articles on economic subjects, he was awarded a branch scholarship in economics and went to Cambridge University, where he studied for two years. While at Cambridge, among other activities, he was a member of the Discussion Club founded ty the economist, Mr. J. M. Keynes, and was convener of the Cambridge (London) Economic Debating Union. Prior to his pre ent appointment, according to advice his parents recently received, he had been associated with a firm of consulting engineers who were interested in international contracts. One of the projects on which the firm's advice was sought, was the supply or' electricity in Bengal. The Midland Bank, with which he was associated as assistant economic adviser until shortly after the outbreak of war, is one of the celebrated “Big Five” in British banking, and ranks as the second largest in the world in regard to deposits, its total of more than £509,000.090 being exceeded only by tire Chase National Bank of the City of New York. It has 2118 branches and sub-branches.