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Operation On Girl To Correct Spine
(N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, Nov. 18. Maureen Locke, aged 13, arrived back in New Zealand on Saturday in the Oriana after a year’s treatment by surgeons at Birmingham’s Oswestry Orthopaedic Hospital for severe curvature of pie spine, the result of having poliomyelitis six years ago.
Her mother, Mrs Eileen Locke, who accompanied her, said the operations were a success.
The Lockes come from Rongotea, near Palmerston North, and people there raised £2500 in nine days so that Maureen could go to Britain for the operation which New Zealand doctors said was her only chance.
She is still encased in plaster from her lower body to her neck.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29983, 19 November 1962, Page 9
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