CHAIR OF ECONOMICS

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 56, 30 November 1926, Page 9

CHAIR OF ECONOMICS

DR. BELSHAW APPOINTED TO AUCKLAND ’’ Dominion Special. •' "Auckland, November 29. The newly-established separate Chair of Economics at Auckland University College has been filled by the appointment of Dr. Horace Belshaw, M.A. (N.Z.), PI..D. (Cantab.), at present a lecturer in economics at Cambridge. There were < ixtecn applicants for the position, which had been advertised in Great Britain and elsewhere as well as in the Dominion. The Chair was until lately combined with that of history, and was occupied by Professor J. P. Grossmann, who is now responsible for history alone. Dr. Belshaw is a New Zealander by early adoption, and lias had a distinguished academic career, both here and in Britain. He is in his twenty-ninth year, having been born in Lancashire in 189 S. He is married and lias one child. Arriving in New Zealand as a small boy he received his earlier education in the South Island, and became a pupil teacher at Christchurch in 1914. He gained the B.A. degree at Canterbury College in 1919, and two years later the M.A. degree with first-class honours in economics, taking first place in New Zealand. His dissertation, entitled “The Dairying Industry of New Zealand,” was awarded 90 per cent, of marks. From 1919 to 1921 he was a master at the Ashburton and Hawera High Schools, and from 1921 to 1924 tutorial class lecturer in economics at Canterbury College, having charge of organising work, first in Westland and afterwards in South Canterbury. in 1924 he was awarded one of the travelling scholarships provided by shipping companies, and proceeded to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he became a research student He won the Sir Thomas Gresham studentship granted By the college in 1925, and in May, 1926, he obtained the degree. of Doctor of Philosophy with a dissertation entitled, “Agricultural Fluctuations: A Study of problems arising out of economic instability in agricultural industries.” He was then appointed for. a year to a lectureship in economics with the right of choosing the subject of his course of lectures. The subject he chose was, “The Economics of Agriculture.” Dr. Belshaw' holds the New Zealand teachers’ A certificate. He is the author of an essay, “How to bring peace and prosperity to Europe through international co-operation,” which gained him first place among entrants from outside the United Kingdom in the British Peace Award Competition of 1924. He collaborated with Professor J. B. Condliffe, of Canterbury College, in “A brief survey of rural credit in New Zealand,” read before the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, and has contributed articles to economic journals :nd other publications.