Spectrum 694. Midwife PNG

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Year
1990
Reference
7142
Media type
Audio
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Rights Information
Year
1990
Reference
7142
Media type
Audio
Duration
00:29:20
Broadcast Date
30 Aug 1990
Credits
RNZ Collection
JENKINS, Gwenda
Perkins, Jack (b.1940)

In 1959, Gwenda Jenkins began work as a nurse and midwife alongside missionaries in the isolated highland interior of Papua New Guinea. It was eleven years before Gwenda finally returned to New Zealand. Gwenda Jenkins recalls her years in Papua New Guinea in
conversation with Jack Perkins.