Journalist Tina White's weekly "Memory Lane" article in the Manawatū Standard. Book review of "Early Medical Practitioners in Manawatū and Palmerston North" by Dr Richard Rawstron. The book describes a background of early medical services in Mana...

Creator:      Tina White
Place:          Manawatū
Date:          December 14, 2013

Contents:

p. 3 Guest editorial /Dorothy Pilkington

p. 5 Through the shop window: Claude Dixon's original and artistic retail displays / Fiona McKergow

p. 13 Connections: The Russells of Wharerata and their origins / Lucy Marsden

p. 20 Wome...

Creator:      Manawatū Historic Journal Associates
Place:          Manawatū
Date:          2006

This photograph shows officers from the New Zealand Medical Corps. It is thought to have been taken at Awapuni around the time of World War One. Awapuni Racecourse was the home of the NZ Medical Corp during the First World War years.

Creator:      Charles Allen
Place:          Racecourse Road, Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1914 to circa 1919

Foxton doctor who visited Palmerston North until Marriner, the first resident doctor, arrived. He later shifted to Palmerston North, where he died in 1913. See GC Peterson, Palmerston North: A Centennial History, p 105 and 139.

Creator:      Wrigglesworth and Binns, Wellington
Place:          Unknown
Date:          circa 1880