Dorothy Spotswood
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Dame Dorothy Myrtle Spotswood is a New Zealand philanthropist, donating to health and disability causes over a more than fifty-year period. In December 2025, she was appointed a Dame Companion of the
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Spotswood (left), after her investiture as a Dame Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit by the governor-general, Cindy Kiro, at Government House, Wellington, on 21 May 2026
Kāpiti Coast District
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The Kāpiti Coast District is a local government district of the Wellington Region in the lower North Island of New Zealand, 50 km north of Wellington City. The district is named after Kapiti Island, a
Dorothy Spotswood
…donated $10 million for the fitout of the Dorothy Spotswood Charity Hospital in Wellington. Spotswood purchased land and funded the building of houses in Kāpiti for people with intellectual disabilities, where the Dorothy Spotswood Village is named after her, working with the Hōhepa Trust. Spotswood and Dunajtschik…
Looking across Waikanae Beach to Kapiti Island
Kapiti Island and the Kāpiti Coast from a hill in Tararua Forest Park. The town of Ōtaki is visible on the right.
The Kāpiti Coast District Council civic building was opened in 2013.