We Remember…

A page dedicated to persons and places related to the hospital days and beyond.

Amuri Country Cottage Hospital — Rotherham’s Little Hospital with a Big Heart

The Puffins and Lyndon Puffin were in residence during the 1980’s.

Lyndon Puffin and band playing at Annual Buskers Festival January 2014

Aroha Clifford – aviator died after childbirth in 1933.

Aroha Clifford was the first pilot trained by the Canterbury Aero Club in 1928.
She may have been New Zealand’s first woman pilot.

Joseph Fearis Munnings – the world famous architect who designed the hospital and decided to make her the first civil concrete building in Canterbury.

Glass Plate Negative Mr J F Munnings

Nurse Amy Maud Wooding Nurse

Historical Hospital Photos

Post 2024 Photos and videos