Commissioner
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Appointment of Niue Is.
THE man chosen to succeed Mr.
C. H. W. Larsen, as Resident Commissioner, Niue Island, is Mr. J. M. McEwen, an outstanding Maori scholar and an official of the Maori Affairs Department in NZ.
He joined the Department in 1935 after graduating from Vic toria University College as a Bachelor of Laws and working with a law firm for three years.
He has been engaged for the last three years in a revision of Williams’
Maori dictionary and since his early youth has been a keen student of Polynesian affairs of which he is a recognised authority.
He married in 1941 and there are three sons of the marriage. (Mr. Larsen was murdered on Niue Is. on August 16).