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Peter Van Praagh was born in Masterton in 1926, attended Wairarapa College, and went to Otago University and took Medical Intermediate in 1945 - but he did not get into medical school then and so switched to a BA. [Image omitted. See PDF] He met a Christchurch nurse Jean Riddell working in Dunedin. They married and went to Christchurch where he completed his BA in Economics and was employed as a farm adviser.
He was accepted for Medical School in 1950 and graduated in 1955.
He brought his family...