THE DURIES OF FEILDING

Te Ao Hou, June 1966, Page 39

THE DURIES OF FEILDING The three sons of Mr and Mrs E. M. Durie, of Feilding, are all University graduates; the eldest, Rawiri, has a Diploma of Agriculture, Mason is a doctor at the Levin hospital, and Eddie is a barrister and solicitor with a B.A. and L.L.B. Their grandfather is Mason Durie, O.B.E., who is a son of Hoani Meihana Te Rangiotu, a prominent Rangitane chief. Mason, earlier this year, was awarded the Ngarimu V.C. post-graduate scholarship and with his wife and family will go to Canada to study at McGill University, Montreal, specialising in psychiatry. The course is for four Mr M. Durie at home with his wife and child years, and leads to a Diploma in Psychological Medicine (D.P.M.). His wife was Arohia Kohere, a granddaughter of the late Rev. Rewiti Kohere, of East Cape and she is also a university graduate, with a Diploma of Home Science. They have one child, Awerangi, aged six months. Eddie was recently selected as a representative of the National Council of Churches to visit Korea and other parts of Asia later this year. The three brothers were educated in Feilding and at Te Aute College. Mr E. Durie B.A., L.L.B. with the head of the law firm for which he works