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The shoe is about to be on the other foot for Pete Hodgson.
Pete Hodgson(centre) in 2004, when he was a government minister, meeting President of the Republic of Chile Ricardo Lagos, with Steve Maharey and Stuart McCutcheon.
Photo: AFP
Once, as health minister, he had health board chairpeople reporting to him. Now he will be reporting to the minister as the new chairperson of the Southern District Health Board (SDHB).
Former SDHB chairperson and Dunedin mayor Dave Cull s short term at the head of the organisation was cut short in October by the discovery of a tumour on his pancreas.