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Story: Te rāngai mahi – Māori in the workforce

Nurse with mother and twins

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Nurse with mother and twins

Nurse Erina Heremaia helps Mrs Lloyd with her twin boys at Kaitāia Memorial Hospital, in 1949. Māori women became involved in nursing from an early stage.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, National Publicity Studios Collection

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Basil Keane, Te rāngai mahi – Māori in the workforce – Urbanisation, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/25525/nurse-with-mother-and-twins (accessed 25 June 2026).

Story by Basil Keane, published 4 March 2010.