Motivated to make her mark, Life and times of Rangi Morgan

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Motivated to make her mark, Life and times of Rangi Morgan

Rangi Morgan working as a pharmacist
Rangi Morgan (left) when working as a pharmacist in Blackall in the Queensland outback

Rangi Morgan may have been the first Māori-Chinese woman to become a pharmacist in New Zealand. Jody Hopkinson speaks to her about her life and career

It was 1959, and Gisborne teenager Rangi Morgan was on her way to Porirua to meet the late Hiwinui Heke, who in 1955 was the first Māori man to become