The Auckland/Northland Division of the Cancer Society provides support for people with cancer and their whānau.
The Auckland/Northland Division has been helping people with cancer and their whānau since 1929.
1929: Established
1930: Consultation Clinic was established
1932: A follow up programme and register of all cancer cases seen at the Clinic
1933: The appointment of a Radiological Physicist was made
1935: A national publicity campaign was launched. Auckland organised the distribution of “The truth about cancer” booklet to professionals such as doctors and district nurses.
1939: Research was began in order to collate statistics from the clinic’s across the country to establish a correlation into the incidence of cancer
1944: Education campaign using women’s organisations to help make the public aware of the need for early diagnosis and treatment of cancer
1947: First public appeal campaign as run after the war, with the catch phrase of ‘Fight cancer with knowledge’. It aimed to raise funds to set up an Information Bureau and to introduce cancer education to the region
1950: Cancer research in Auckland began when Dr J.F Burton was granted a Cancer Research Scholarship in Pathology
1955: Patients from out of town requiring treatment had beds secured in private hospitals or convalescent homes with the division paying the costs
1962: Patients were accommodated at the Salvation Army Hotel, where the welfare of the patients was foremost in the Hotel Staff’s minds
1968: The division obtained its own headquarters and these premises housed office staff but also a cancer detection clinic
1978: Domain Lodge motel complex was purchased
1979: Celebration of the 50th Jubilee
2022/2023
2021/2022
2020/2021
2019/2020
2018/2019
2017/2018
2016/2017
2015/2016
2014/2015
2013/2014
The constitution are the rules that the Auckland/Northland Cancer Society work under:
Our Strongest Supporters
With grateful thanks to our lifetime members who have provided so much to Cancer Society over the years.
- Kerry Bachler
- Anthony Bacon
- Bruce Baguley
- Moya Barr
- Stuart Bauld
- Michaela Baxter
- Joan Baynham
- Elaine Black
- Lesley Brennan
- Nigel Brown
- Jessica Buddendijk Van Horrik
- Bill Burgess
- Leone Burgess
- Geoffrey Clathworthy MNZM *
- Maureen Clooney
- The Honourable Justice Cooper
- Nola Cooze
- Jan Dalley
- Carrick Davidson
- Marjorie Davidson*
- William Denny KNZM
- Akshay (Shay) Desai
- Jim Dufficy
- Arvind Dullabh
- Judy Dysart
- Karene Gore
- Lorraine Hampton
- Patrina Hardie
- Peter Harwood
- George Hitchcock OBE, DFC *
- Enyth Holdgate *
- Linda Holloway
- Michael Horton CNZM
- Edna Johnson
- Rev. Douglas Kidd *
- Jonathan Koea
- Knox Laird
- Wendel Levens
- Murray MacCormick
- Guy Marks
- Diana Marsh
- Tom Marshall OBE
- John Mayo
- Lavinia McMillan
- Russell McIlroy
- Elizabeth Morgan QSM JP
- Sabine Muller
- Patricia Noonan
- Merv Norman *
- Ravinder Parmar
- John Partridge
- Jatin Patel
- Henry Perkins*
- J C Probert
- Graham Scahill
- Gayleen Scahill
- Olive Shanks
- John Shanks
- Michael Sharp
- Peter Shepherd
- Glenys Shepherd
- Dale Siebert
- Anne Sinclair
- Brian Stevenson
- Joan Swift QSM JP
- Jennifer Thomson
- Heather Wheeler
- Patricia Williams
- Neen Williams
- Bill Wilson
* Deceased
