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From left are Dr Robert Coulter (anaesthetist), Sister Jean MacKenzie herself, Anthony James (neurosurgery director), Sister Joan Blackie, Sister Francis Herlihy and Richard Robinson (assistant director) at a farewell for one of the nurses.
Mrs Throp, who was a neurosurgery nurse between 1950 and 1954, said Dunedin was a neurosurgery leader in the early 1950s, taking patients from Palmerston North south.
Mrs Throp (83) said her job, first as a theatre and later a ward nurse, was a happy and busy time.
