He also managed to get mentioned in the local paper when a lemonade bottle he was opening broke causing a cut to his eye.
Due to ill health Ramsden moved to Christchurch to work for the Press in 1942 where his journalistic focus was on history and Maori affairs.
Moving back to Wellington in 1945, Ramsden joined the Evening Post becoming its diplomatic correspondent and art critic.
[8] In August 1927 the Sun sent Ramsden to Turangawaewae marae at Ngāruawāhia to interview Te Puea Herangi, a Tainui Princess.
When the Governor-General Sir Charles Fergusson visited Turangawaewae in April 1928 Ramsden covered the event for the newspaper.
During the 1950s Ramsden's Wellington home was used as a base by numerous Maori leaders for accommodation and meetings when they were in the capital on business with the Government.
He attended lectures on the subject at the University of Sydney and founded the Pacific Islands Club (now known as the Polynesian Society).
In January while in Hawaii he met up with Te Rangi Hīroa (Sir Peter Buck), who at that time was a Professor of Yale University and the then leading expert on Polynesian culture.
[10] After this journey Ramsden published his first book, Marsden and the missions in 1936 followed by James Busby: the prophet of Australian viticultureii in 1940.
[11] These, including correspondence between Buck and Ngata, are considered one of the important repositories of twentieth century Maori history.