Victoria, Lady Plunket, presents the first Plunket medal to the first Plunket nurse, Mrs Murray, in Dunedin in 1909. No mere figurehead in the Plunket Society, Lady Plunket addressed meetings, forged a national administration and helped to design the nurses’ uniforms. She also patented a hood for baby prams and other conveyances for carrying children, Truth reported in 1909, commenting that Lady Plunket was the mother of seven, so should know what was needed.
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Otago Witness, 18 August 1908, p. 46
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