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Story: Disability and disability organisations

Ernest Moon

While a disability can restrict work opportunities, it can also encourage inventive ways of working, allowing many people with disabilities to perform the same work as a person without a disability.

This 1917 greeting card shows Ernest Moon, postmaster at Te Uku (near Raglan), writing with his foot.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Beverley Macpherson Collection

Reference: PAColl-8577-1-50

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Martin Sullivan, Disability and disability organisations – Care until the early 20th century, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/zoomify/29164/ernest-moon (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Martin Sullivan, published 30 March 2011.