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22: 43:(15 November 1888 – 8 October 1982) was a New Zealand physiotherapist and artist, best remembered for her advocacy of outdoor activities and children’s health camps in the 1930s. She was instrumental in the founding of 51:
in 1932. She had trained as a physiotherapist in Dunedin during World War I, and been introduced to youth hostels during her extensive European travels in the 1920s when she painted and studied outdoor activities.
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in 1930, for which she held fundraising garden parties at "Fownhope", the Wilding family home in St Martins, Christchurch, and also the
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for services to the community. The first Christchurch youth hostel (1965–1997), formerly Avebury House the
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She retired as a physiotherapist in 1948, and moved from Christchurch to
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Cora and Co: The first half-century of New Zealand youth hostelling
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Taonga, New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage Te Manatu.
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home, was called the "Cora Wilding Youth Hostel" in her honour.
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by Dion Crooks (1982, Youth Hostel Association of New Zealand)
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New Zealand Members of the Order of the British Empire
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MBE
The Sunlight League
Youth Hostel Association of New Zealand
Frederick
Tony Wilding
Nelson College for Girls
Kaikōura
1952 New Year Honours
Member of the Order of the British Empire
Flesher
"Wilding, Cora Hilda Blanche"
"No. 39423"
The London Gazette
"James Flesher, Avebury House"
Cora Wilding in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography
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The Group
Chrystabel Aitken
Gladys Anderson
Rita Angus
Ria Bancroft
Nola Barron
Leo Bensemann
Phyllis Bethune
Vivien Bishop
Olivia Spencer Bower
Helen Brown

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