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… years. What dismayed her most was the reluctance of doctors and fellow nurses to treat those left bruised and … anti-fascist. She worked at an Auckland convalescent home for returned soldiers, and at Auckland Hospital. She …
Type: Biography
… local school in Amberley, but now her father kept her at home to help her pregnant mother; he taught her himself … was appointed an MBE in 1965 and was awarded an honorary doctorate of laws by Victoria University of Wellington in …
Type: Biography
… a life-sized sculpture of Margaret Cruickshank, the local doctor who had died in the influenza epidemic of 1918. … the Trethewey name. Trethewey was New Zealand's outstanding home-grown sculptor in the first half of the twentieth …
Type: Biography
… went blind in one eye. As a boy he was tutored at home until the age of eight. This was followed by … in August 1880 at the age of 22. Like many New Zealand doctors of his time, Truby King trained at the University of … nurses trained in infant welfare visited mothers in their homes. King also took ailing infants into his holiday home …
Type: Biography
… set up shop in Christchurch and later became a Methodist home missioner. Horace matriculated from Christchurch Boys' … discussions of the Political Economy Club. He completed his doctorate on agricultural fluctuations and published an … and the importance of "non-economic" factors are brought home more strikingly'. Belshaw was disappointed by the …
Type: Biography
… he made up for it by reading voraciously. After leaving home at 16 he became an accomplished shepherd and drover. … resources comprised an uninhabitable hospital and a single doctor who put off patients with his gruff manner and … the Maori's destiny was to labour in its plantations and homesteads. By 1907 Europeans occupied a fifth of …
Type: Biography
… to Ōpōtiki to live. She and Heremia eventually made their home at Bradleys Landing on the banks of the Northern Wairoa … the family never went short of food. Maria Tōpia's home was immaculate, with bed linen for visitors and fine … excellence of the work she did was recognised by the local doctor, C. M. Mules, who in the 1930s recommended her for an …
Type: Biography
… concern of the church, and the books and the music at home. Victoria University College, where he enrolled in 1919 … the certainty of their affections was re-established. The doctoral dissertation on British colonial policy completed … Office (where it took place on 17 February 1930) and stayed home to prepare lunch for the small family gathering. There …
Type: Biography
… on to a wooden box mine and was severely wounded. Invalided home, he spent nearly three years in hospital recovering; … and attended Oxford University in England to read for a doctorate on the problems of cultural adjustment of the … to 1976 on the Parole Board. He was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Canterbury in 1973 and was …
Type: Biography
… until the arrival of Samuel Ford in 1837, was the mission doctor. His early fluency in spoken Māori was noted by Henry … a predominantly Māori character. (On his English visit a doctorate of canon law from Oxford had been conferred on … the Hukarere school for Māori girls, close by his own home. His daughter, Anna Maria , was principal. On 9 …
Type: Biography
… May, a trained teacher, provided for their five children a home filled with books, music, lively discussion and … shore of Lyttelton Harbour, and to begin building a modest home there. As a 1960s proto-feminist, she remained single … and acclaimed living writers. She was awarded honorary Doctorates in Letters by the University of Canterbury (1993) …
Type: Biography
… project had ended, New Zealand was at war. The army doctors, presumably unaware of Pascoe’s climbing feats, … took two forms. He served in a bush guide platoon of the Home Guard, marking and mapping routes in the Orongorongo … to carve out a bush section in Eastbourne and build a new home designed by John’s twin brother, Paul , a prominent …
Type: Biography
… required to isolate for 14 days after arrival, either at home or in hotels set aside for this purpose. The Public … diseases such as typhoid. Centralisation From the 1880s doctors advocated a central department of health, which the …
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… scholars to give lectures and meet students socially in his home. Active in supporting Māori aspirations, Piddington … level. He helped the first Māori studies lecturer to gain a doctorate overseas and to establish a language laboratory on …
Type: Biography
… would come when the Maoris would wish to have their own doctors, their own lawyers, and their own clergymen, and I … boys to Te Aute to learn to plough – we can teach them at home'. 'To them', Thornton continued, 'Te Aute is what …
Type: Biography
… Innes Smith, then working as an assistant to her father, a doctor in Waimauku, west Auckland. They married in Auckland … the managers of a Waimauku farm, moved to Mason’s previous home in Plimmerton. Mason held design jobs in the … . However it was the decorating and furnishing of his homes, first in Plimmerton and later in Ponsonby, that …
Type: Biography
… a member of Parliament from 1905 to 1943, and when he was home The Bungalow doubled as his political base where he met … to political, religious and tribal thinking at both the homestead and the pā. His parents were devoted Anglicans and … and Victoria University presented him with an honorary doctorate in law in 1979. Retirement Hēnare retired in 1990 …
Type: Biography
… Irish labourers and factory workers on his father’s – left home and family for distant New Zealand in the nineteenth … love of plants and his development of a native garden at home. His Star success also attracted unwelcome sexual … England on a returned serviceman’s scholarship to undertake doctoral studies at King’s College, University of London. He …
Type: Biography
… school by rotation and because she was frequently needed at home to help with community affairs. She resigned in 1914 … the lease. Late in 1916 Whina moved back to her parents’ home and resumed work in the co-operative store. Soon … clinic alongside the store, where patients could be seen by doctors and nurses as part of Dr G. M. Smith ’s Hokianga …
Type: Biography
… she was very young. She grew up in Wellington in the busy home of her maternal grandparents, the proprietors of the … the war ended with his death, and her engagement to a young doctor also ended tragically when he was killed assisting at … Her mother, Jessie, lived with Nancy at her Wellington home until Jessie’s death, and their relationship was close. …
Type: Biography