PACIFIC RELATIONS INSTITUTE

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 56, 30 November 1926, Page 8

PACIFIC RELATIONS INSTITUTE

CHIEF RESEARCH OFFICER PROFESSOR CONDLIFFE APPOINTED Dominion Special. Christchurch, November 29. Professor J. B. Condliffe, Dean of the Faculty of Commerce and Law at Canterbury College, has been appointed Chief Research Officer of the Institute of Pacific Relations. It is understood that the appointment is for three years, and the salary is a particularly substantial one. The headquarters of the institute will be at Honolulu. Professoi Condliffe has made a life study of Pacific problems, and at the beginning of this year attended a con- ' ference representing all countries of the Pacific at Honolulu.

Professor Condliffe was born in Melbourne in 1891, but arrived in Christchurch as a small boy and attended the West Christchurch School, and graduated at Canterbury College. After serving with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force he entered Gonville and Caius College as N.Z.E.F. scholar and the i holder of a feir Thomas Gresham scholarship. Upon his return to the Dominion he was appointed to the Chair of Economics at Canterbury College, and recently was appointed to succeed Professor J. Hight as Dean of the Faculty of Commerce and Law. Mr. A. H. Tocker, lecturer in economics at Canterbury College, has been appointed to succeed Professor Condliffe as dean of the faculty of commerce and law.