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Presbyterianism. Alexander became respected as a healer, known for her high success rates and always beginning the treatment with a prayer. She resigned from the Waikaremoana mission in 1923
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class and a popular weekly social group were established. Fellow missionaries Edith Walker and May
Gardiner joined Alexander at the mission in 1914 and 1919 respectively; both were later ordained as deaconesses. Alexander studied the
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and established hostels for young Māori looking for work in the city. She was a founding member of the United Māori
Mission, taught Māori at the New Zealand Bible Institute and took regular services in Māori.
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alike in the area, and in 1921 Alexander and
Gardiner accepted an invitation from Waikaremoana's Māori community to start missionary work there. A young women's group from John Knox Church in
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raised funds for a cottage to be built there. Alexander and
Gardiner commenced missionary work in Waikaremoana on the 14 December 1921. Local members of the
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in 1925, but fell out with and was replaced by the Māori
Mission Committee in late 1926. She did relief work until 1929, when she agreed start a mission in
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In the winter, Nūhaka was cut off from Wairoa and its roads were inaccessible, so
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on 27 March 1962, and she was buried at Purewa
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New Zealand Members of the Order of the British Empire
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191:children.
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67:Hawkes Bay
45:Early life
39:missionary
161:Southland
51:Brantford
35:deaconess
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196:Auckland
173:Auckland
169:Honolulu
132:Rangiora
179:In the
153:Ōpōtiki
136:Ringatū
59:Dunedin
55:Ontario
128:Pākehā
87:Nūhaka
81:Nūhaka
63:Wairoa
189:Māori
149:Taupō
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