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Senior staff and nurses outside the main building in 1937. The names, found on a tattered scrap of paper accompanying
the photograph have been recorded as follows:
Back row: Maternity Nurses, D Shaw, J Turner, JA Molloy, D Keating, J Waddington, G Holmes, R Black, Miss Peake, Miss
Simmonds, Miss Nepia, Miss Dreaver, K Drummond.
Seated: Dr F Appleby, Sister NA Harding, Dr JL Frazerhurst, Matron DE Giffney, Dr JC Wadmore.
Front row: Miss Hunt, Miss Patterson, Miss Walton (or) Wadmore. Photo: Bay of Plenty District Health Board Archive

Over the next 13 years, three Matrons served at the Whakatane Hospital but very little information
and few photographs appear to have survived.
The Matrons were:
Nurse Miss Gribben, Matron, 1938-1943
Nurse Miss Runciman, Matron 1943-1947
Nurse Miss K Miller, Matron, 1947-1951
Nurse Miss CP (Phyllis) Booth, Matron, 1951-1967.

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