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Rotorua Government Gardens, around 1910

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, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/photograph/18820/rotorua-government-gardens-around-1910 (accessed 29 March 2024)

Story by Maggy Wassilieff, published 24 Nov 2008