University economists conference

By Peter Okell
SEVERAL leading European experts on the problems of world population and hunger will attend an Inter-University Catholic Economists' Conference at Manchester University, March 23-25— the first of its kind to be held in the United Kingdom. The conference theme will be "Church and State and the problems of the underdeveloped Countries". Dr. Salvino Busuttil, Maltese student of economics, is organising the conference in collaboration with the University Catholic chaplain, Fr. B. Winterborn, S.J. He told the CATHOLIC HERALD: "The conference is open to Catholic economic students at all Northern Universities. as well as students studying allied subjects, providing there is the necessary accommodation available".
Speakers at the conference will include: Dr. Werner, a member of the West German Federal Parliament and one of Germany's leading experts on hunger and population; Father Renato Cirillo, professor of economics at the Royal University of Malta; and Miss M. R. Haswell, of the Agricultural Economics Research Institute at the University of Oxford. who lived for some time among the poorer peoples of Africa and Asia.
The conference at the Catholic men's residential hostel, Allen Hall, will be opened with an address from Fr. Henry Waterhouse, S.J., former Principal of the Catholic Workers' College, (Word.
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