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… big American cities. Asia, Africa and the Pacific are also home to New Zealanders who perhaps came first with the … organise social occasions and the exchange of news from home. Where the community is smaller as in Denmark or … than half a million have returned. And although losses of doctors and nurses are highlighted by individual cases, …
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Part of story: Kiwis overseas
… farm settlements in Wairarapa. As he was often away from home, and objected to Hannah's running wild with local Māori … skills. When Henry MacKenzie became the first long-term doctor in Levin about 1900, Christina Prouse persuaded … and entered fully into its life. Hers was an open home, in which she brought up several of her grandchildren …
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… province. A network of Chinese storekeepers, lodgings and doctors catered for the newcomers. Shum was outfitted in … after sending a last despairing letter to him to return home. But he had been unable to save enough money. He did … had a low opinion of his fellow migrants who had returned home. In New Zealand he was eulogised by Don as 'Faithful …
Type: Biography
… election by conferring on him its degrees of bachelor and doctor of divinity. Sprott was to be bishop of Wellington … a particular interest in the work of the St Mary's Guild. A home in Karori for schoolgirls, administered by the guild, was named after her in 1938. Sprott House is now a home for the elderly. Thomas Sprott retired on 31 January …
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… Remuera. On leaving school she was expected to stay home and help her mother. However, after her elder sister returned home, she took the opportunity to train as a nurse at … to the Eighth Route Army, Norman Bethune, a Canadian doctor, if she would also bring back medical supplies for …
Type: Biography
… estate broken up by his land policies, and also at his home town, Palmerston. A statue of Governor George Grey was … were exceptions. In Waimate, Margaret Cruickshank, a local doctor who died saving lives during the 1918 flu epidemic, … (1936), and a memorial canoe prow was erected in memory of doctor and anthropologist Peter Buck (Te Rangi Hīroa) on the …
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Part of story: Memorials and monuments
… and physical changes to recognise pregnancy. Midwives or doctors provided confirmation through physical examinations and later urine tests. Home pregnancy tests were available from the early 1980s. … and detect abnormalities. By the late 20th century doctors could do genetic tests on embryos in the womb. If …
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Part of story: Pregnancy, birth and baby care
… to rehabilitate alcoholics by taking them into her own home. In 1898, concerned for the victims of male drunkenness, she helped establish the Bethany Rescue Home for women and children. Believing education to be an … for the education of her children. Two of her sons, one a doctor and the other a dentist, followed her example and …
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… century, most people who had family or money were nursed at home and attended by the local doctor. ‘Colonial hospitals’, which cared for Māori and poor … throughout New Zealand since 1885, teaching first aid and home nursing in small towns with scant medical services. In …
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Part of story: Ambulance services
… placements were made by private agencies, maternity homes, doctors or hospital matrons. State social workers have … father did try to contact me. He called at my parents’ home and had the door closed in his face. He called the …
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Part of story: Adoption
… formative years assisting in the running of her father's home. She had only a limited understanding of English. On 13 … frequently were referred to her by Rāwene's 'backblocks doctor', G. M. Smith . A pūtake harakeke (flax root) … wholeness. The myriad taonga (treasures) displayed in her home as gifts from grateful, and cured, patients, showed …
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… who never married, lived at the family’s Victoria Avenue home for the rest of her life, with her mother and an … botany and gardening was encouraged both at school and at home. She later recalled: ‘we were given pocket money to … unlike most of her male colleagues, she did not have a doctorate. Cunningham, the Plant Disease Division’s first …
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… his studies at the close of 1881 on the advice of his doctors and emigrated to Australia. Before leaving he … on key southern church committees such as publishing, home missions and the Bible in schools movement, and was a … failed to bear fruit. As the convener of the Presbyterian Home Mission Committee from 1912 to 1924 he raised the …
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… life. After Te Kou-o-rehua died, his mother had him brought home. Here she continued his education in healing matters … have two daughters and a son. They established their first home at Kauae, later moving to Pūriritahi at Ōtūwhare near … spiritual rather than physical causes. He co-operated with doctors: Dr Golan Maaka , a Māori who practised in …
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… Ian Prior was an influential doctor, activist and art patron. His ground-breaking health … grew up on Perry Street in Masterton in a two-storey brick home that also housed his father’s medical practice. As a … the house in Wadestown, Wellington, that remained their home for the rest of their lives. From 1953 to 1957 Prior …
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… outside of an academic institution. Jacoby gained a doctorate in law in Austria and was a research assistant to … philosophers studied overseas before returning to their home country to teach and research. There is also a … died in 1969, is arguably New Zealand’s most distinguished home-grown philosopher. Other New Zealanders who have gained …
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Part of story: Philosophy
… took over this work. Children were medically examined by doctors three times during their time at school. Those with … were seen more regularly. Nurses visited children in their homes. They helped treat minor complaints and sent those with more serious problems to doctors. Teachers were also supposed to instruct children on …
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Part of story: Child and youth health
… actively encourages its people to work overseas and send home remittances to assist family members, thereby … industry from the late 1980s and in the health sector (as doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals) from the …
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Part of story: Filipinos
… her services increased she began to take women into her own home for their confinement and two weeks' rest. One night … read nor write. In defiance of the law Blundell and other doctors apparently signed and verified a spurious midwifery …
Type: Biography
… in Kahutia Street; it became a Gisborne landmark. Their homes were always full of people, for although they had no … hockey, golf and bowls; both the Hēni Materoa Children's Home and the Kahutia Bowling Club were named in her honour. … sufferers to enter temporary hospitals staffed by Pākehā doctors; she also persuaded Māori women to help with …
Type: Biography