title: Mason Durie (community leader)
text: # Mason Durie (community leader)
  
  John Mason Durie OBE (1 July 1889 – 20 April 1971) was a New Zealand tribal leader, interpreter, public servant, farmer, and community leader.
  
  ## Background
  
  Of Māori descent, he identified with the Ngāti Kauwhata and Rangitāne iwi. He was born in Aorangi, in the Manawatū, in 1889. Eddie Durie and Mason Durie are his grandsons.
  
  Durie died on 20 April 1971 in the same house he was born in.
  
  