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… in making it easier to keep clean was unacknowledged. Bathing In the 19th and early 20th centuries, doctors recommended daily cold baths and warm or hot baths less often. Educationalist James … Bathing and personal hygiene …
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Part of story: Washing, cleaning and personal hygiene
… Alfred de Bathe Brandon was born on 21 July 1883 in Wellington, New Zealand, the son of Alfred de Bathe Brandon, a solicitor, and his wife, Louisa Kebbell. … from 1893 to 1894 and his grandfather, also named Alfred de Bathe Brandon, was an early Wellington settler, crown …
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… to important rituals. The warm waters of waiariki (large bathing pools) and ngāwhā (overflowing pools) were used for … Nude communal bathing for men was the rule; women bathed alone or in secluded pools. Sex-segregated nude …
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Part of story: Thermal pools and spas
… developed a European-style spa with ornamental gardens, and bathing and therapeutic facilities. The population grew from … unemployment. Health or pleasure? Rotorua’s swanky Blue Baths were quite a departure from the city’s earlier …
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Part of story: Volcanic Plateau places
… hold from the 1880s. In some places, new public swimming baths offered separate sessions for men and women, with the … Skin complaints The sight of people swimming and sunbathing was too much for some beachgoers. Writing to the … purpose of exhibiting their nakedness under the pretence of bathing’. 2 Local councils still saw sea bathing as a …
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Part of story: Lifesaving and surfing
… Te Aro pā. In 1871 he also purchased the tidal salt-water baths at Clyde Quay, on the foreshore near Oriental Bay, and … from the town if it was not too choppy, or walked round to bathe in Meech's baths. A red flag was hoisted during gentlemen's hours and a …
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… Recreational bathing While the idea of thermal springs as health resorts … large swimming pools. At Rotorua the Blue and Ward swimming baths became extremely popular from the early 1930s. Mōrere …
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Part of story: Thermal pools and spas
… and they were expected to hire horse-drawn wooden bathing machines, which were pulled into the water to … mixed bathing remained strong. The opening of public baths from the 1880s encouraged a growing interest in …
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Part of story: Beach culture
… exhausting day-long process, usually done once a week. Hot baths were also often a weekly event, as heating water was …
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… Spas A medical officer was appointed in Rotorua in 1882. A bathhouse opened the same year, and a sanatorium in 1886. In … Around Lake Taupō, spa tourism was less formal. Visitors bathed in hot pools at various sites around Taupō and … promoted it to holidaymakers and spa users. The Ward baths and Blue Baths were built in the early 1930s. The end …
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Part of story: Volcanic Plateau region
… Kawakawa (pepper tree) Kawakawa leaves were used in a steam bath for sexually transmitted diseases (introduced by … Kawakawa was used in the umuroa, an oven or vapour bath for those with rheumatism or other complaints. Stones … were thrown on a fire with whau and karamū, to make a steam bath treatment for broken bones. …
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Part of story: Rongoā – medicinal use of plants
… civilised pleasures. From 1882 the government built several bathhouses and made the surroundings more sophisticated – … spas, the Rotorua Bath House provided inhalation rooms, mud baths, sun baths, electric treatment and needle douches, …
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Part of story: Tourist industry
… a non-corroding, water-powered wooden clock to help bathers gauge their bathing time, a hydraulic 'ejector' to regulate water … maintained and improved the battery system of the galvanic baths, experimented with non-corrosive pipes, and introduced …
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… In the 19th century people had great faith in the power of bathing in mineral water to cure arthritis, rheumatism and … in hot mud, or were given massage or douche (spray) baths, especially at larger spas such as Rotorua. Government …
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Part of story: Thermal pools and spas
… By 1873 he was the proprietor of The Glen, a spa and bath-house at Tapapakuao, just north of Tapuaeharuru. … a lease on condition that he erect a number of cottages and baths within a given time. The lease was granted, and by …
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… Ferdinand Hochstetter described separate springs for bathing, cooking and laundry, and vapour baths and winter huts that had been built on the warm sinter terraces. Especially in winter, the baths were communal meeting places. Development The …
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Part of story: Volcanic Plateau region
… taniwha. On 20 December 1876, four young girls had gone to bathe in a waterhole at Waipapa. This spot was renowned as … taniwha named Tāminamina. While three of the girls began to bathe, the fourth, Mereana, swam to the other side of the …
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Part of story: Taniwha
… 1931 she entered an endurance competition in the tidal baths at Manly, hoping to win the first prize of £300. The … Bay, Sydney. Later in the month at the city’s Balmoral Baths she broke the world record with a swim of 72 hours 9 …
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… charms and healing benefits of thermal springs, and spa bathing became the basis of a rapidly growing tourism … from about 1870. Between 1891 and 1904 the number of spa baths taken each year by visitors increased from 10,000 to …
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Part of story: Geothermal energy
… on the geysers The traditional Māori activities of cooking, bathing, preserving food and heating caused only minimal … Rotorua to help meet the tourist demand for hot water for bathing and heating. This accelerated after the Second World …
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Part of story: Hot springs, mud pools and geysers