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Doctor’s consulting room

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Doctor’s consulting room

Once a country town reached several hundred people, it could support a resident doctor. Here a doctor has set up business in Waihī in the Coromandel, around 1910.

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Jock Phillips, Country towns – Social life, 1870–1920, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/19406/doctors-consulting-room (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Jock Phillips, published 1 March 2009.