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Otiwhiti Station : the story of a hill country station and pioneering polio hospital / the Duncan family, with Vera Hunt and John McCrystal ; photography by Peter McDermott.
- Title
- Otiwhiti Station : the story of a hill country station and pioneering polio hospital / the Duncan family, with Vera Hunt and John McCrystal ; photography by Peter McDermott.
- Publication
- Auckland, N.Z. : Random House, 2011.
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- Description
- 319 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps; 26 cm.
- Summary
- "Otiwhiti Station lies in the rugged hill country of the Rangitikei's Turakina Valley, unforgiving land of steep gullies and razor-sharp ridges. A farming family of unique character, the Duncans have been working the land in the region since the 1880s. ... When the polio epidemic of last century landed disastrously close to home, they set aside Otiwhiti Station as a charitable trust to fund the Duncan Hospital, which pioneered treatment for polio sufferers. Ever since, the Trust and the farm have worked side by side, throughout the changing fortunes of farming. Otiwhiti Station chronicles the personalities, the yarns and the legends of station and hospital life." --Back cover.
- Alternative Title
- Story of a hill country station and pioneering polio hospital
- Subject
- Duncan, T. A. 1873-1960 > Family
- Duncan family
- Duncan family
- Duncan Hospital
- Duncan Hospital
- Hospitals, Special
- Hospitals, Rural
- Poliomyelitis
- Hospitals, Special > history
- Hospitals, Rural > history
- Agriculture
- Poliomyelitis > history
- Hill farming > Rangitikei District > History
- Poliomyelitis > History. > Wanganui
- Agriculture > New Zealand > Popular Works
- Poliomyelitis > history > New Zealand > Biography
- Poliomyelitis > history > New Zealand > Popular Works
- Hospitals, Rural > history > New Zealand > Biography
- Hospitals, Rural > history > New Zealand > Popular Works
- Hospitals, Special > history > New Zealand > Biography
- Hospitals, Special > history > New Zealand > Popular Works
- Poliomyelitis > New Zealand > History > Popular Works
- Hospitals, Rural > New Zealand > History > Popular Works
- Hospitals, Special > New Zealand > History > Popular Works
- New Zealand
- Otiwhiti Station (N.Z.) > History
- Genre/Form
- Popular Work
- Biography
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- "All royalties to post Polio support" -- cover. -The Duncans have been farming at Otiwhiti in the Turakina Valley since the 1880s. During the polio epidemic of the 20th century, they founded a charitable trust to fund the Duncan Hospital for Poliomyelitis. This is the story of an iconic North Island hill-country station, and of a remarkable, philanthropic Kiwi family.
- ISBN
- 9781869795382 (pbk.)
- 1869795385 (pbk.)
- OCLC
- 757937547
- SCSB-12474573
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library