GP Ivan Howie, 1941 to 2023: From China to the Barrier, from prisoner of war to respected GP

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GP Ivan Howie, 1941 to 2023: From China to the Barrier, from prisoner of war to respected GP

Iva Howie and bike 1985 supplied
Aotea GP Ivan Howie visited patients by motorcycle in the 1980s [Image: Supplied]

For 35 years, Ivan Howie ‘hatched, matched, patched and dispatched’ the people of Great Barrier Island as their doctor and celebrant, writes Fiona Cassie

At the age of four, Ivan Howie watched American paratroopers drop out of the sky to liberate his family from a World War II Japanese prisoner-of-war c