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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 10, Issue 3 (June 1, 1935)

Maori Polynesian Researches

Maori Polynesian Researches.

On his return to New Zealand after the great adventure of his life, Dr. Buck was engaged by the Government to attend to the health of the Maori people, and he went into the duty with the same zeal and devotion he had displayed in his life as a soldier. But another and even more absorbing occupation presently claimed him, anthropological exploration in the Pacific, with special reference to the Maori-Polynesian zone. His unexampled knowledge of the Maori in his own country and his excellent lectures and papers in the “Polynesian Journal” on various branches of native culture attracted the attention of the authorities of the Berenice P. Bishop Museum, in Honolulu. He was invited to become a temporary member of the Museum ethnological staff, and since 1927 he has been engaged page 23 chiefly on research work in the islands of Polynesia, with Honolulu as his headquarters. America also had its scientific eye on Te Rangihiroa, and he was engaged to deliver courses of lectures on anthropology in Yale University. A great honour this for New Zealand, and for our Maori race. Dr. Buck could not be bettered as a lecturer; he has that touch of blended wisdom, humour, and poetic fire that most agreeably coats the pill of solid knowledge.