SIR PETER BUCK VISITING RUATOKI NEXT MONTH
Te Rangihiroa, better known perhaps as Sir Peter Buck, the eminent Maori Director df the Bishop Museum at Honolulu, is to pay a visit to Ruatoki, in company with about 30 other scientists, early next month.
Sir Peter is to attend the Seventh Pacific Science Congress to be held in New Zealand this year along with about 400 other scientists from different parts of the world. He will arrive in this country with the Prime Minister, -Mr Fraser, next week. One of the two Maori Doctors of Literature, the other being Sir Apirana Ngata, Sir Peter is an acknowledged world authority on Polynesian Anthropology. He is Professor of Anthropology at Yale University, one of the largest in America and is the author of several books, all classics in their own right.
A large Maori welcome is being planned for Sir Peter and his party and Maori leaders are planning to make it one of the biggest to be held yet, in this part of the Bay of Plenty. Sir Peter and the other scientists are due to arrive at Ruatoki on the afternoon of February 11.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 44, 21 January 1949, Page 5
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193SIR PETER BUCK VISITING RUATOKI NEXT MONTH Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 44, 21 January 1949, Page 5
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