Des Oliver
Desmond Oswald Oliver (26 October 1930 – 25 October 1997) was a New Zealand rugby union player and Nephrology, nephrologist. Born in Palmerston North on 26 October 1930, Oliver was educated at Palmerston North Boys' High School, where he was a member of the school's 1st XV in 1948. He went on to study medicine at the University of Otago, graduating MB ChB in 1955. A Rugby union positions#Flanker, flanker, Oliver represented and, briefly, at a provincial level, and was a member of the New Zealand national side, the All Blacks, on their 1953–54 New Zealand rugby union tour of Britain, Ireland, France and North America, 1953–54 tour of Britain, Ireland, France and North America. On that tour, he played 20 games, scoring 12 points, for the All Blacks, and appeared in two Test matches. Oliver became a house surgeon at Wellington Hospital, New Zealand, Wellington Hospital in 1954. He moved to the University of Oxford in 1961, where he was a lecturer and became a leading rese ...
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Palmerston North
Palmerston North (; mi, Te Papa-i-Oea, known colloquially as Palmy) is a city in the North Island of New Zealand and the seat of the Manawatū-Whanganui region. Located in the eastern Manawatu Plains, the city is near the north bank of the Manawatu River, from the river's mouth, and from the end of the Manawatu Gorge, about north of the capital, Wellington. Palmerston North is the country's eighth-largest urban area, with an urban population of The official limits of the city take in rural areas to the south, north-east, north-west and west of the main urban area, extending to the Tararua Ranges; including the town of Ashhurst at the mouth of the Manawatu Gorge, the villages of Bunnythorpe and Longburn in the north and west respectively. The city covers a land area of . The city's location was once little more than a clearing in a forest and occupied by small communities of Māori, who called it ''Papa-i-Oea'', believed to mean "How beautiful it is". In the mid-1 ...
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