DR. P. H. BUCK
VISIT TO NEW ZEALAND An arrival from Rarotonga by the Makura yesterday was Dr. P. Buck (“Te Rangi Hiroa”), formerly Director of Maori Hygiene, who accepted a research position with the Bishop Museum, Honolulu, about two years ago. He was accompanied by Mrs. Buck. Dr. Buck is under engagement to the Bishop Museum for five years, and he is devoting his time chiefly to ethnological studies of the Polynesian races. He is recognised as one of the leading authorities on Maori social history and folk-lore in particular and the Pacific peoples in general. For the past year he has been carrying out intensive research in the Cook Islands, and he is now on his way back to Honolulu.
As soon as he landed yesterday Dr. Buck left for Sir Apirana Ngata’s district, on the East Coast, where he will attend a Maori gathering. He will leave for Honolulu by the Aorangi from Auckland on March 11.
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 141, 11 March 1930, Page 13
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