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A. R. D. Fairburn

Died in 1957

Arthur Rex Dugard Fairburn was born in Auckland on 2 February 1904, a great-grandson of missionaries. He left the city's secondary school without a diploma, after becoming friends there with R. A. K. Mason, and was an insurance clerk until 1926. He went to England in 1930, married there and returned in 1932. He experienced unemployment and relief work gangs, served the farmers' union, was called up in 1942 and then assigned to the radio. A fabric printer, lecturer in art history at the Elam school, and supporter of organic farming, he died of cancer in March 1957.

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