Date1942DescriptionPhotograph of the Katikati Maternity Hospital prior to it's opening in 1942. The opening of the Katikati Maternity Hospital on Monday 1 June 1942 by Frederick Widdowson Doidge (M.P.) was the culmination of over forty years of continual effort and fundraising by the local community who were determined to obtain medical services for the district. Photo Credit: Alice Macmillan.
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Originally uploaded to the Tauranga Memories website (2011-2020), into the Katikati History basket, or focus group, by Tauranga City Libraries staff (Debbie McCauley), on September 21, 2014.
Its original URL was: http://tauranga.kete.net.nz/en/katikati_history/images/show/8963 and its original license was: Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercialNoDerivatives 4.0 International.
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