Mr Elsdon Craig
PA Auckland A prominent writer on Maori affairs and a former member of the “New Zealand Herald” editorial staff. Mr Elsdon Walter Grant Craig, has died. He was 63.
Mr Craig, known as “Tiny,” retired from the “Herald” in 1974 after 28 vears. He was editor of the “Family Doctor” for 12 years, and won the
Cowan Memorial Prize in 1971 for an article on the Tuhoi tribe. His deep knowledge of Maoridom, and particularly the Tuhoi, came from his grand-uncle, Elsdon Best, the first white man to live with the Tuhoi, and from, his grandfather, W. G. Gudgeon, a former Native Land Court judge and a fluent Maori speaker.
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