A few words from…Alex McLeod

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A few words from…Alex McLeod

31 August 2022

A few words

Wednesday 31 August 2022, 02:45 AM

Rural generalist Alex McLeod and Coromandel’s “town cat”, “Helen Clark” [image: suppled]

Alex McLeod is from Wairarapa. Kōtarani, Ingarihi, Werehi, ko Ngāti Kahungunu ona tīpuna (Scottish, English, Welsh and Ngāti Kahungunu are his ancestors). A rural generalist, he worked as a rural hospital doctor in Taupō until last summer. He now lives at Harataunga/Kennedy Bay, over a steep, hilly road from where he works at Coromandel Family Health Centre

The best thing about my job is mountain biking to and from work, and the view out across Tīkapa Moana (the Hauraki Gulf) as I cross the hill, Tokatea,

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