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… Abraham Walley (Wali) Mahomed Salaman was born in Amritsar, Punjab, India, probably … Salaman was found guilty of falsely pretending to be a doctor skilled in the treatment of physical diseases, and … a large blue dome. Salaman died on 8 February 1941 at his home in Gill Street. Following embalming, he lay in state …
Type: Biography
… realised there was continuous work to be done in visiting homes and institutions. He was also confronted with what poverty and illness meant in daily life. Home visiting was always an important part of his ministry. … someone to talk to. Many people observed that long before a doctor or undertaker arrived at a home Moore would be there. …
Type: Biography
… were temporarily resolved by her boarding at her parents' home. The following year she became senior resident at New … to the Truby King Karitane Hospital and Mothercraft Home, Auckland, which treated premature and other babies … in gaining the Medical Association’s approval for doctors to work in NZFPA clinics in 1961 and played a major …
Type: Biography
… an income to support herself and her ailing parents. On her doctor’s advice she chose a nursing career, and applied to … recreational opportunities she introduced into nurses’ homes, and eventually she encouraged the practice of living … annexe were opened and the laboratories and nurses’ home extended. In Christchurch she oversaw the opening of …
Type: Biography
… as espoused by S. Percy Smith in Hawaiki: the original home of the Maori (1904) introduced Kupe as a Māori … and the sack of towns, were they, but colonists seeking new homes beneath strange stars’. 1 His ‘Aryans’, some turning … aside drawn from the author’s life as athlete, soldier, doctor, public health administrator, politician, …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Non-fiction
… such as George Nēpia and Cliff Porter frequented the family home and Nītama would listen for hours in awe as they … Logan Temple, Utah, on 12 June 1928. On the family’s return home in 1929, Nītama continued his primary schooling at the … In 1947 he served for a short time as locum to Hokianga doctor G. M. Smith , before moving to Kaikohe, where he …
Type: Biography
… artist and architect Friedensreich Hundertwasser made his home in the region and produced distinctive buildings such … origins in some of his work, while Glenn Colquhoun, then a doctor at the small Bay of Islands settlement of Te Tii, won …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Northland region
… on 21 April 1911. Encouraged by a young resident doctor, a nurse told the local newspaper that leave was … New Zealand Branch of the British Red Cross Society, giving home service during the First World War. Isabella Fraser …
Type: Biography
… Motu's progress. In 1906 Hansen built himself a comfortable home over the river, sold the hotel to a son and retired to … well-done.' In 1910 an attack of appendicitis brought the doctor on a 13-hour mid-winter journey from Gisborne. He …
Type: Biography
… fundraising events were held at The Elms: for Dr Barnardo's Homes, for patriotic causes during the First World War and … Once, when she was critically ill with pneumonia, the doctor expected the worst and filled out her death …
Type: Biography
… refuge for the flightless takahē. In 1948, Invercargill doctor Geoffrey Orbell rediscovered the bird in the … most mischievous animal’. 1 Fish Southland rivers were home to eels, bullies and four galaxiid species (two kinds …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Southland region
… In the wards she was a strict disciplinarian with resident doctors and nurses. Her industry, clarity of thought and … Presbyterian Church and a memorial wing in Chalmers home for the aged. …
Type: Biography
… Married life began after the wedding breakfast, in the home they would occupy together. Well-to-do couples were … entrepreneur, Mander a world-class yachtsman, and Turbott a doctor. Theirs were ‘busman’s honeymoons’, combining …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Marriage and partnering
… him for the medical preliminary. His ambition to become a doctor was possibly fired by the scene of an amputation in a … Isabella Mary Wilkie Roberton, daughter of an Auckland doctor. She qualified MB, ChB in 1922, and Leslie returned … and high death rates of the city’s many small nursing homes, he was instrumental in seeking Department of Health …
Type: Biography
… but architectural jobs were scarce. With some local doctors he tried unsuccessfully to float a company to … to England. He died at Ledbury, Herefordshire, at the home of his elder daughter, on 9 September 1912. His fine …
Type: Biography
… the son of Julia Quirk and her husband, Patrick Caples, a doctor. Nothing is known of his early family life. He … and was buried in the Burkes Creek cemetery. Part of his home was later incorporated into a motel complex on the …
Type: Biography
… officers, nurses, teachers, bank managers, lawyers and doctors … Some have attained the higher reaches of society … … people forming a new identity a few hours by 747 from their home islands. New Zealand is close enough to the springs of …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Samoans
… in the First World War gradually falls in love with a woman doctor. The novel is concerned with the consequences of war … by doing odd jobs, growing her own vegetables and making home-brew. She finally saved some money when she herself …
Type: Biography
… payable if she died in seven years. Henry Cain died at his home, Woodlands, on 29 January 1886. He had been suffering … symptoms which puzzled Patrick McIntyre, the family doctor. Even more puzzling was the fact that they appeared …
Type: Biography
… value their political privileges. She travelled, and her home was full of works of art. The family's residences … went against him; he was granted a discharge after five doctors testified to his poor health. On 29 November 1913 …
Type: Biography