AN IMPORTANT POST

Hokitika Guardian, 29 March 1927, Page 4

AN IMPORTANT POST

OFFER TO OR P. H. BUCK. AUCKLAND, Alareh 25. As a prelude to enibarking on a programme of live years’ research in. Polynesia, the Bishop Museum of Honolulu has offered a charge to Or P- HBuck, Director of Maori Hygiene, and an eminent representative of New Zealand’s Native race. Or Buck conferred with officers of the Health Department in Wellington to-day, hut has not yet announced his decision. The engagement offered to Or Buck is one which ho is supremely qualified to fill. For some years he has been an associate ill Polynesian anthropology to the Bishop Museum. The projected research would require his residence in Honolulu between visits to Polynesia. Already the Bishop Museum has dealt with the Marquesas, the Austin Group, Tahiti, and Moureait, and will now conduct research in the lesser islands, including the leeward Society group, Tuainotu, Rarotonga, Co i; ,k Island, Ponrhyn, Pitcairn, and Sampa. Melanesia and Micronesia will also he embraced in the studies, and it is considered that this organised research will reveal lunch that has association with the Maori race. As a Maori patriot, politician, medical man. hygienic expert, and student of the origins of his pimple, to whom lie is known as To Batigihiroa. Or Buck has heen in tile public eye. in one or ail her of these capacities since early j,. • ...eat < entui’y. Educated lor (he medical profession, he was one of the young Maori parfv associated with the lion Mr Ngata in snreadiiig the gospel of sanitation among the outlying parts. In so doing, lie raised the standard of health of the Native race. Or Buck was horn in 1881). his father being the late Air \V. H. Buck, who served with the ‘2nd. Waikatos in ilie Maori war. and his mother. Xgarongo Ki Tun. a ohieftainess of Xgatiu'va tribe of Taranaki.