Karitane

Caption: Plunket's negotiating team, back row, from left: Kathy Greenstreet, clinical leader delegate, Auckland; Jenny Sunnex-Dib, Plunket nurse delegate, Tauranga; Angela Collie, B4 school nurse and national delegate, Auckland; Marion Hiemstra, national educator delegate, Auckland; Laurie Stuart, community Karitane delegate, Auckland; Sandy Shanly, clinical leader delegate, Tauranga; and Selina Robinson, NZNO co-advocate, Tauranga.

based ropu, Hauteruruku ki Puketeraki, in Karitane on Te Tai o Araiteuru

21 were registered nurses (RNs), three were Community Karitane (community support workers specifically trained in infant and mother care and support) and one was a community services worker.

The measures chosen assess two important elements of parenting capacity; parenting confidence, measured using the Karitane Parenting Confidence Scale (Crncec et al, 2008) and mental health and well being, measured using the General Health Questionnaire 30 (GHQ 30; Goldberg and Williams, 1988).

The formation of the Karitane Products Society in 1927 to market the humanised milk products Karilac and Kariol developed by Truby King as appropriate alternatives to breast milk supported the Plunket Society in its work, however, raises questions over the priorities of the Society and its intentions to support breastfeeding.

The two most trusted advice centres, Tresillian and Karitane, have quietly and controversially abandoned their policy of allowing a child to cry and learn to self-settle, instead advising parents to move into their baby's bedroom.

The acceptance of artificial formula assisted the development of a formula industry in New Zealand, and in 1927 the Karitane Products Society was formed.

According to Tahu Potiki, Maori at Karitane claimed to be unable to understand the preaching of the missionary Rev Watkin who was basing his sermons on Maori-language texts from the North Island.

The wrecks of Bulli and Karitane provide good diving sites.

James Watkin, formerly of Tonga, established the South Island's first Christian mission at Waikouaiti (present-day Karitane).

Malu recently took part in the hikoi to Karitane to mark 110 years since the first Karitane hospital opened its doors and to honour Plunket's beginnings.