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Story: Te hauora Māori i mua – history of Māori health

District nurse

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District nurse

A district nurse weighs a Māori baby at the Waiharara gumfields in Northland in the 1930s. From the early to mid-1900s there was an increase in publicly funded nurses who worked with rural Māori communities.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Northwood Collection (PA-Group-00027)

Reference: 1/1-006308-G

by Northwood Brothers

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Raeburn Lange, Te hauora Māori i mua – history of Māori health – Slow progress, 1920 to 1945, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/27261/district-nurse (accessed 25 June 2026).

Story by Raeburn Lange, published 28 April 2011, updated 4 April 2018.