Chairman Danks Superb

The chairman superb was Prof. A. J. Danks, Christchurch, economist, notorious for his expose of the fallacies of Social Credit. Master of the trenchant phrase and possessed of a truly delightful sense of humour, he never let the reins of control slip from his expert hands as he steered discussion after discussion through the Scylla of verbosity and the Charybdis of sententiousness.

I have seen many Congress chairmen, but none was better than Danks. His achievement, for that is what it was, will be remembered as possibly the best thing about the '56 congress.

In his ex eathedra address to the faithful he guided the unwary through a maze in search of economic man and through them to the conclusion that man's power to behave as a free economic agent-had disappeared with the workings of the Welfare State. An enlightening but at the same time sobering thought,