Hawke's Bay

Hastings

Nurse (Miss) O'Callaghan (1912-1920), 711 Avenue Road East.

Apparently began as a Plunket Nurse in Hastings in 1911.

Nurse Georgina Mercer, "Ranui", Alexandra Crescent (1917-1922)

"Widespread regret was expressed in Hastings when it became known on Tuesday afternoon that the death had occurred of Mrs. Georgina Mercer, who was more familiarly known to the community as Nurse Mercer." (Poverty Bay Herald, 3 January 1936)

Nurse Bamforth, King Street (1918-1922)

Nurse Alison, Outram Road. (1921)

Te Kohanga Maternity Home, Frederick Street (1933)

Miss Margaret Isabel Cooper (Sister Cooper), 204 St Aubyn Street West (1936-at least 1947)

Havelock North

Nurse Joblin (1916)

Endsleigh Cottage, Middle Road (1918)

Napier

McHardy Maternity Home, 11 Bracken Street (1917-1970s). Run by Napier Hospital Board. From 2008 known as McHardy Lodge.

"The lodge was originally built in the 1890s as the "city residence" for Scottish immigrant Leslie McHardy, who ran a substantial sheep farm known as Blackhead Station, 90 kilometres south of Napier. A generous philanthropist, McHardy allowed the family residence to be used as a nursing home to care for Kiwi soldiers returning home from battle in WW I. Shortly after, in 1917, the property was gifted to the Napier Hospital Board for conversion into a maternity home and midwifery school – a role which the property fulfilled for several decades until maternity services were eventually ceased in the late 1970s. In the 1990s McHardy House was fully restored to a stately private residence, before evolving into luxury accommodation in the mid-2000s." (Stuff Homed, 3 July 2018)

Nurse Cunningham, Milton Road (1922)

Takapau

Nurse Barrow (1923)

Waipawa

Nurse Denholm, Ruataniwha Street (1915-1916)

"Nurse Denholm, who has recently acquired the residence of the late Mr O M. Whittington, in Ruataniwha-street, announces that she has opened a maternity home there. The dwelling has been thoroughly renovated and fitted up in an up-to-date manner to ensure the comfort of patients." (Waipawa Mail, 30 March 1915)

Nurse Bunn (1918-1919)

Nurse English, (1920)

Nurse Smale, Trevarrow Private Hospital. (1921)

"Nurse Smale, of Hastings, has secured the Islington Hotel for the purposes of a private hospital, and preparations are now being made to suit the accommodation for the reception and treatment of maternity, medical and surgical cases. The hospital will be opened on Monday next, 18th inst." (Waipawa Mail, 11 July 1921)

Rathbone Maternity Hospital (1925-1949). Operated by Waipawa Hospital Board, opened January 1926. Now a retirement home (2018).

"William Rathbone settled in Waipawa in 1859 and was a well-known wealthy merchant and landowner. His wife, Lissie Rathbone, died in March 1918, 14 years after her husband, leaving behind a large estate. Half of the estate went to charity, with bequests from the Lissie Rathbone Trust funding a maternity home, children's home, Plunket rooms, and a tower, spire and renovations at St Peter's Church in Waipawa." (NZ Herald, 18 April 2016)

Waipukurau

Nurse Eva Elizabeth Peacock, Waipukurau Maternity Hospital "Te Whanantaunga," St Joseph Street (1921-1934). Operated by Mrs Sowry 1917 up to March 1921. Nurse Peacock assisted by her sister Hilda. Retired 1934.

Mrs Edith Harriet Johnstone, St Joseph Street Hospital (1939- at least 1943)