The first Māori Doctor, Maui Pomare, was recruited to the new Department of Public Health ‘Māori Health’ section as ‘Health Commissioner for the Natives’ in 1901. Te Rangi Hīroa (Peter Buck) engaged as Pomare’s assistant in 1905.[i]
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[i] go to main content Dow, Derek, ‘Driving Their Own Health Canoe: Maori and Health Research’ in Bronwyn Dalley and Margaret Tennant, eds., Past Judgement, Dunedin, 2004, pp. 93–5.