ROBERT BURNS FELLOWSHIP
Award Made To R. A. K. Mason (N.Z Press Association) DUNEDIN, Oct. 6. Mr R. A. K. Mason, of Auckland, has been awarded the Robert Burns fellowship for 1962. The award entitles him to pursue his ■writing at Otago University for a year. Mr Mason who was born in Auckland in 1905. was educated at the Auckland Grammar School and Auckland University College where he graduated in classics. He has been a teacher, a Public Works’ employee, a company secretary, a trade union officer, and is at present a landscape gardener. For many years he has contributed to literary and political journals, his special interests being the Far East and Polynesia. “Mr Mason’s ‘Frontier Forsaken. an Outline History of the Cook Islands,’ published in 1946, anticipated by nearly 10 years some of the press disclosures which have shown how little New Zealand has to boast of in its administration of the islands.” the regis. trar of Otago University (Mr J. W. Hayward) said today.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29638, 7 October 1961, Page 12
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