Nina Catherine Muir

In 1927, Muir became the first woman house surgeon at Wellington Hospital.^[2] She became a senior house surgeon at Cook Hospital in Gisborne in 1928.^[3] At Cook Hospital and Te Puia Hospital she attended births and treated patients in remote areas. After her marriage she became the first general practitioner to practise in the maternity unit of Cook Hospital. In 1949–1950 she did a postgraduate diploma in obstetrics and gynaecology at the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin.^[1]

During the 1940s, Muir was the president of the East Coast branch of the British Medical Association.^[4]

In 1929, she married Percy Rutherford Muir, a Gisborne journalist and printer, whose family owned the Poverty Bay Herald. They had two daughters.^[1][5]

Muir died in Gisborne in 1981.^[1]