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Rotorua Government Gardens, around 1910

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Rotorua Government Gardens, around 1910

The Rotorua Government Gardens were created in the 1890s to complement the large bathhouse. The scrub-covered thermal site was transformed into a garden with large lawns, conifers, ponds, shrub borders, rose beds and tennis courts.

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Maggy Wassilieff, Public gardens – Municipal public gardens, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/18820/rotorua-government-gardens-around-1910 (accessed 5 June 2026).

Story by Maggy Wassilieff, published 1 March 2009.