LATE MR BUICK.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 73, 23 February 1938, Page 2

LATE MR BUICK.

A DISTINGUISHED CAREER. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON. Feb. 22. The late Mr Lindsay Buiclc was elected to the House of Representatives as member for Wairau in 1890 as a Liberal and served in two Parliaments and then lost his seat, largely owing to his independence of thought. He thereupon entered journalism, acquiring an interest in the “Manawatu Standard.” W 7 hile a resident of Palmerston North he published his first two books, “Old Marlborough” and “Old Manawatu. In 1903 at Dannevirke he wrote “An Old Now Zealander.” After a trip to England he settled in Wellington, and there wrote “The Treaty of Waitangi.” This was a work the merit of which saw him elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society of London. From 1913 to 1933 he was pn the staff of tlxe Press Association. In 1926 he published “New Zealand’s First War,” in 1927 “The Romance of the Gramophone,” in 1928 “The French at Akaroa,” in 1930 “The Jubilee of the Port of Wellington,” in 1931. “The Mystery of the Moa,” in 1935 “Elijah,” in 1936, a The Discovery of the Dinons, in 19.37 “The Moa Hunters of New Zealand.” . . He issued two nbw editions of ‘ The Treaty of Waitangi,” in 1934 “Waitangi 94 Years After.” The late Mr Buick edited, in 1935, Lord Bledisloe’s volume of speeches “Ideals of Nationhood.” Government recognition of Mr Buick’s work took the form of his attachment to the Alexander Turnbull Library in a research capacity. He was chairman of the New Zealand Centennial National Historical Committee as well as the Wellington Historical Committee, and in connection with these had done niuch valuable organisation in preparation for New Zealand’s Centennial. Hus death will be keenly felt in this sphere. Mr Buick leaves a widow, but no children. PREMIER’S TRIBUTE. In a tribute to Mr Buick the Prime Minister (Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage) said that his death would b© deeply regretted by old Parliamentarians, scholars, and all New Zealanders, who love th© story of their own country. “As an historian he filled a particular niche in New Zealand literature,” added Mr Savage. “He could blend romance with scientific fact. His service to tlie country was wortli while. 55