This image was published in the July 9th, 1978 edition of the Tribune weekly newspaper.

The caption read: “Dr Wigley : Telethon won’t solve all the problems, but it will help.”

Extracts from the article: ”While Telethon was remarkably successful...

Creator:      The Tribune
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          July 7, 1978

This is the home of the Rockstrow family, located at 59 Cuba Street. Johann Friedrich Rockstroh (1834-1913) was a Prussian born in Erfurt, Germany. As a young man he migrated to New Zealand, where he practiced medicine in the goldfields of Otago a...

Creator:      George W Shailer
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1889

Portrait of Dr Arthur Anderson Martin (1876-1916) in military uniform. Dr Martin served in the South African Field Force 1901, British Expeditionary Force and as a surgeon in World War One, when he died of wounds at the Somme, 17 September 1916. H...

Creator:      Unknown
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1914

A midwife astride her horse in the Apiti District.

Creator:      E G Child
Date:          189X