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Statue of Margaret Cruickshank

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31: 166: 158:, to design the memorial statue. Trethewey worked from photographs and created a plaster cast which was displayed in a shop window in the town to enable locals to comment on it. He then returned to his workshop in Christchurch to create the sculpture, which he created from Italian 162:. The completed statue measures 3.3 metres tall, and depicts Cruickshank in academic robes, holding a Bible in her left hand. At the base are the words "The Beloved Physician/Faithful unto Death". For many years, a bowl of fresh flowers was placed at the foot of the memorial. 185:, and the chair of the Waimate County Council, Thomas Lawson Hart. Miss M. Allen was also present, as a representative of the Otago University Women's Association. The unveiling was performed by Cruickshank's landlady of 23 years, Mrs Barclay. 378: 353: 96: 373: 383: 368: 173:
The memorial was unveiled on 25 July 1923 at a memorial service for Cruickshank. The speakers at the ceremony included Cruickshank's former classmate Dr
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Phillips, Jock; Taonga, New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage Te Manatu.
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is located in Seddon Square, in the small rural town of
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Kai Tiaki: the journal of the nurses of New Zealand
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William Trethewey
Carrara
marble
Waimate
Coordinates
44°44′07″S 171°02′43″E / 44.73526°S 171.04519°E / -44.73526; 171.04519
Waimate
New Zealand
Margaret Cruickshank
William Trethewey
Christchurch
Carrara marble

Emily Siedeberg
Waitaki
John Bitchener


"Margaret Cruickshank | NZHistory, New Zealand history online"
ISBN
0908912048



"Dr Margaret Cruickshank"



"Statue of Margaret Cruickshank, Waimate"

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