A Tribute To The Late
p. 36 · Read in the full issue
Sir Peter Buck
ONE of the best articles ev written by Eric Ramsd< appeared in the Auckland St; of December 14, as a person tribute to Sir Peter Buck.
Ramsden and the famous Direct* of the Bishop Museum were do friends; and, only a few wee] earlier, when Ramsden was on h way to America, to spend s months on a special mission, 1 stayed in Honolulu with Sir Fete He knew that the health of h friend was precarious; but, non< theless, he learned with a shoe when he arrived in New Mexic that Sir Peter had died, after short illness, on December 1.
The NZ journalist tells mar anecdotes of the distinguishe European-Maori, with glimpses < his career as a University man, politician and a scientist. Ramsde reminds us that it is only a fe months since Buck visited Ya.
University, and received a honorary doctorate of science.
“Wherever he went,” says Rams den, “Peter Buck was a most love man. Old people and childre appealed to him particularly. Or can never forget his gentle courtes; He had no enemy. While h: judgment was shrewd, it was nevf cruel.”