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… Ménage…dreary & uncomfortable' and concluded that 'home is not Featherston's centre'. While this judgement … known: to the people he helped govern he was 'The Little Doctor'. …
Type: Biography
… Hōtere was raised in a close Māori Catholic family in his home community of Mitimiti. At 15, he left Mitimiti to … and corrugated iron In 1994 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Otago, and in 1996 he spent …
Type: Biography
… the medical subcommittee, responsible for hiring and firing doctors and deciding the level of financial support for … and housing of his people. About this time he moved his home from Waihī to Tauranga-Taupō. In 1937 the Tongariro …
Type: Biography
… his schooling at Waiomatatini Native School. He became so homesick there that his father finally had to take him home. In 1885 Rēweti travelled to Pukehou in Hawke's Bay … 'The Māori people are not going to be saved by a few doctors, lawyers, and professional men and women; it is …
Type: Biography
… Zealand. Those who had followed his advice to leave their homes survived. As his strange behaviour continued, Te … because the needle could not be located. Ōmeka was brought home; it was predicted that he would die. After a week of … were made that sick followers were refusing to visit doctors. Orthodox Christians claimed Rātana was worshipping …
Type: Biography
… Four plays appeared. Later career A small bach (holiday home) on a bush section on Lone Kauri Road at Karekare Beach … academic career was nearly over. He received an honorary doctorate from the University of Canterbury in 1975, and …
Type: Biography
… hiatus to develop two strips for local publications, ‘The doctor’ ( Thursday magazine, 1975–76) and ‘The kids’ ( New … though by that stage Ball was unaware of it. He died at home on 12 March 2017, aged 78, survived by Pam and their …
Type: Biography
… realistic, and effective negotiator in finally bringing the doctors into the new scheme. Janet Fraser had long been … view in the division that their proper place was closer to home. Fraser, weighing the strategic arguments against …
Type: Biography