R. A. K. Mason

Ronald Allison Kells Mason was born at Penrose, near Auckland, in January 1905. At the city's high school, which he entered in 1917, he became friends with A. R. D. Fairburn. He then gave classes in Latin, economics and civics at a private school and in 1926 began Latin studies at the university. A Marxist, he worked for the communist press, published the journal of an Auckland workers' union and wrote for the stage. He held a writing fellowship at Otago in 1962 and died at Takapuna in July 1971.

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