page_title: George Marshall McCall Smith
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: George Marshall McCall Smith / Early life
caption_attribution_description: English: View of Rawene, looking back at a wharf, a street going up a hill, with A S Andrewes &amp; Sons general store in the centre. There is a large house on the waterfront on the right. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber, in 1918.
context_page_description: George Marshall McCall Smith was a notable New Zealand doctor, medical superintendent and community leader. He was born in Nairn, Scotland in 1882, emigrating to New Zealand in 1914. For 34 years he ran Rawene Hospital, campaigned for state funding of health and created a health service for the Hokianga area.
context_section_description: George McCall Smith was born in Nairn, Scotland on 13 November 1882. He completed his medical degree at the University of Edinburgh, and then went into general practice in Strathmiglo, Fife and Perth. In 1907 he married Barbara Grieve with whom he had two sons and two daughters. He emigrated to Rawene in New Zealand in 1914 with one of his patients, Lucy Scott.
caption: View of Rawene township in 1918
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