Bruce Mason

Bruce Edward George Mason was born in Wellington on 28 September 1921. Enlisted in the navy during the war, he was in charge of public relations for the forest service until 1957, then edited the Maori magazine Te Ao Hou in 1960 and 1961. A critic for the Listener, the Dominion and the Evening Post, he was in 1964 among the founders of Downstage, the country's first professional theatre, and performed one of his monologues alone throughout the country. Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1980, he died in Wellington on 31 December 1982.

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