HONOUR FOR DR. BUCK.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20759, 30 December 1930, Page 6

HONOUR FOR DR. BUCK.

APPOINTMENT TO YALE. LECTURER IN ANTHROPOLOGY. Word has been received in Auckland of the appointment of Dr. P. H. Buck, formerly of Auckland and now of the Bishop Museum, Honolulu, to the post of lecturer on anthropology for post-graduate students at Yale University. The position was offered to him some time ago and he has now intimated his acceptance of the pffer. The appointment is viewed as a great honour for New Zealand and for Auckland in particular. Dr. Buck qualified in medicine at Otago University and acted as house surgeon at the Dunedin Hospital until his appointment as health .officer to the Maoris. From 1909 to 1914 he was member of Parliament for the Northern Maori electorate and was Minister representing the Maori race in the shortlived MacKenzie Ministry, which held office from March to July, 1912. On the outbreak of war he left with tho first Maori contingent as medical officer and saw active service in Egypt and Gallipoli. He attained the rank of major as second in command of the New Zealand Pioneer Battalion and won the D.S.O. in France. Dr. Buck was appointed director of Maori hygiene on his return to civil life and in 1923 he became a member of the Board of Maori Ethnological Research. In 1927 he accepted an oSer to join the Bishop Museum of Honolulu and engage on its behalf'on a programme of reseach in Polynesia.