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PROFESSORSHIP FOR MAORI.
NEW YORK, Feb. 3.— Dr. Peter Buck
(Te Rang! Hiroa, a Maori), of New Zea
land, has been appointed to a professor
ship at Yale University.
The President of Yale (Mr. J. R. An
gell) said that Dr. Buck had accepted a
directorship of the Bishop Museum, Hono
lulu, which he joined in 1927, and a pro
fessorship in anthropology at Yale.
[Dr. Peter Henry Buck was born
at Urenui, Taranaki, in 1880. In
his college days he was a noted
athlete. In 1905 he became health
officer to the Maoris and from
1908 to 1914 was a member of Parlia
ment, becoming Minister representing the
Maori race, Cook Islands. He was a medi
cal officer with the New Zealand forces
(Maori contingent) at the Great War
from 1914 to 1918. retiring with the rank
of major and the D.S.O. He subsequently
became director of the division of Maori
hygiene. He is an authority on Maori
arts and crafts, and was special lecturer
at Yale University in 1932. In 1905 hi
married Margaret (M.B.E.), daughter of
Mr. A. W. Wilson, of Milton. Otago.]
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