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Taranaki Stories 
Science And Medicine  
New Zealand's first two Māori doctors hail from Taranaki. One trained in the United States, where he met a trail of remarkable people. The other studied at Otago, and later turned from medicine to ethnology. Both men were Māori health reformers, had stints in parliament and also became great leaders. In the future, we will cover a woman bush doctor before her time, a showman dentist, and an eccentric man who founded the Plunket Society. A healthy number of stories will be added to this section.

Spanish Influenza NZ's Worst Disaster By Virginia Winder The still body of a young Inglewood boy is covered w... Read More
Flu Facts - Counting the Costs
A Plague of Rats By Rhonda Bartle Rats that swarmed and swam In May 1900, a huge swarm ... Read More
Bog, bush and candlelight medicine - Dr Doris Gordon By Sorrel Hoskin Doris Jolly and her friend Francie Dowling, gazed appr... Read More
Pigwifery and PumpsJelly sponges and Rose bushes
The Monument Builder By Rhonda Bartle Humble Beginnings Though he ended up infamous in Tara... Read More
Houston We Have Liftoff! - Lee Wilson, Space Cadet By Rhonda Bartle Come in Houston Imagine being asked to design a moon... Read More
Give me the Impossible - the story of Truby King and the Plunket Movement By Rhonda Bartle Give me the impossible. Let me lead a forlorn hope,... Read More
Maria Turner - Kingpin of Modern PlunketOh to be a Plunket nurse - ‘To help the mothers and save the babies’Taking Tea with Sir Truby
Te Rangi Hiroa - The Life Of Sir Peter Buck By Virginia Winder The prow of a giant canoe thrusts from a wild tumble... Read More
Starry, Starry Night - The Hāwera Observatory By Rhonda Bartle A cosmic solution: Hawera Observatory was built on ... Read More
Steering By The Stars
Sir Maui Pomare's Life-long Quest By Virginia Winder When Parihaka was invaded by Armed Constabulary and ... Read More
Before Sir Maui
A Midwife's Hands By Rhonda Bartle A Prayer for all seasons The midwife's prayer begins:... Read More
A Short History of Inglewood Maternity HospitalThe Midwife's Prayer
Over My Dead Body - the June Opie story By Rhonda Bartle When June Opie sailed from New Zealand to England in 1... Read More
Rough Shod - Shirley Hazlewood
God Has Been Good To Me - Sister Anne Keegan Looks Back By Rhonda Bartle English and Irish Blood Born of good English and Iris... Read More
Brainwave - Robin Fancourt By Rhonda Bartle Robin Fancourt at home in New Plymouth: Image Puke A... Read More
From New Plymouth to NASA - Kate Goddard, Space Convert By Rhonda Bartle Back home: Kate Goddard looks through her album of N... Read More
Man on a 'hip' mission By Virginia Winder Victor Hadlow closes his eyes and imagines he is tes... Read More
The Importance of Hip ChecksTaranaki's Victor of Bones
A Girl Called Pearl: Early Farming Days on East Road, Stratford By Rhonda Bartle A mother who loved pearls Pearl Wildermoth's strong, ... Read More
A career to get your teeth into - Betty Hammonds dental nurse By Sorrel Hoskin New Plymouth's Betty Hammonds got into dental nursing ... Read More
Child's Play - Faye McDonald Dental TherapistOpen wide - dental nursing history


Taranaki Stories.
Read about the Netherworld Dancing Toys

When boys become toys - read about one of Taranaki's most successful pop stars as he remembers the best years...

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