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Nursing certificate, 1924

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Nursing certificate, 1924

This Auckland Hospital Training School for Nurses certificate confirms that Ada Ellinor Boyd qualified as a nurse in 1924.

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Te Ara – The Encyclopedia of New Zealand

Reference: Margaret Brown, Diana Masters, and Barbara Smith, Nurses of Auckland: the history of the general nursing programme in the Auckland School of Nursing. Auckland: M. Brown, D. Masters, B. Smith, 1998, p. 48

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Allison Kirkman, Health practitioners – Nurses and midwives, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/ephemera/28326/nursing-certificate-1924 (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Allison Kirkman, published 29 March 2011, updated 28 April 2026.