Pitt Islander honoured
PA Wellington A sixth-generation Pitt islander, Mrs Eva Lanauze, the district nurse in the Chatham Islands for 30 years, has received the Queen’s Service Medal.
Mrs Lanauze, whose great-great-great grandparents arrived at Pitt Island from Lincolnshire in 1842, is the first Pitt Island resident to receive the award, given at Government House.
Her daughter-in-law is now the district nurse.
Mrs Lanauze says she is kept busy helping her husband in their farming and fishing business, and also as a Justice of the Peace and spokeswoman for the Pitt Islanders. Mrs Lanauze visits Christchurch about once a year, and says the remoteness of Pitt Island did not bother her as it was her home. “But I do like to feel that I can go whenever I want to,” she says. Her home is the most easterly permanently occupied residence in New Zealand, and she is frequently the first New Zealander to see the sun rise.
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Press, 22 November 1989, Page 17
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