Jock McEwen (New Zealand)

Jock Malcolm McEwen CMG (1915–2010) was a New Zealand public servant, writer and carver who contributed to Māori development.

[1] In 1935 McEwen got a job at the Native Affairs Department as part of the New Zealand public service.

[2] McEwen was part of the founding of the Ngati Poneke in 1937, an urban pan-tribal cultural club.

[3] In the early 1950s McEwen was posted to Niue as the Resident Commissioner where he learnt the language and wrote the first dictionary.

[4] As a writer and linguist he was part of revising the Standard Maori Dictionary, sixth edition.