Rudgard Palapu (left) and Relmah and Humpress Harrington, pictured here in 2000, came to New Zealand on government scholarships. As trained nurses, they were to return home to help their people. On arrival in Wellington, they had also faced challenges, as Humpress Harrington explained: ‘I think we experienced culture shock in the environment … I didn’t even know how to stop the bus … even going up in lifts, we didn’t have lifts.’
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Reference: Kai Tiaki Nursing New Zealand (August 2000): 7.
by Anne Manchester
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