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… used for cooking, and waiariki (warm pools) were used for bathing, laundry and relaxation. Puia (geysers) were … are excavations in geothermal ground, or poorly ventilated bathing pools. In built-up areas like Rotorua, much of the …
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Part of story: Hot springs, mud pools and geysers
… Point (later known as the Government Gardens) a cluster of bathhouses were built from 1882. At Te Aroha, north-east of … continue to use the waters. From 1883 the government built bathhouses, and by 1885 more people were visiting Te Aroha … Parakai near Kaipara Harbour, and the Armed Constabulary Baths near Taupō. Tourism In 1901 the new Department of …
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Part of story: Thermal pools and spas
… tried. A popular method was to run sheep through a foot bath of bluestone (copper sulfate) and arsenic. However, the … paring hooves to remove infected tissue, using foot baths containing a disinfecting agent, and dosing with …
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Part of story: Diseases of sheep, cattle and deer
… burial grounds. There is provision for a mikveh (ritual bath), arrangements for brit milah (ritual circumcision for …
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Part of story: Jews
… and healing agent. The juice of the leaves was also used in baths. Drinking the liquid in which leaves had been boiled …
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Part of story: Rongoā – medicinal use of plants
… Tīnui soldier was on leave from Carterton camp and taking a bath at his grandmother’s house. When the first quake struck … exposing himself to his grandmother, so clung on in the bath. Back at camp, he was woken by his bed shaking, and …
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Part of story: Wairarapa region
… Zealanders’ strong affinity for seaside holidays and sea bathing followed developments in England, where by … established institution. New Zealand adopted the English ‘bathing machines’ or mobile changing sheds. Food Until the …
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Part of story: English
… offered squid fishermen and sailors mah jong, traditional baths and sake (rice wine). …
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Part of story: Japanese
… popular public spaces in cities and towns. Every summer bathing beaches – such as Nelson’s Tāhunanui, Dunedin’s St … was used for horse and motorcycle races as well as sea bathing. It boasted New Zealand’s longest public pier from …
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Part of story: City public spaces
… beaches, and similar regulations were enforced once mixed bathing became accepted at swimming pools. For many years the NZASA stipulated the exact styles of bathing suits that could be worn, and insisted that women …
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Part of story: Swimming
… ground surrounding a sanatorium hospital and thermal baths. During the first decades of the 20th century, sports …
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Part of story: Public gardens
… always been debate about the medical benefits of thermal baths. For years it was widely believed that the minerals in …
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Part of story: Thermal pools and spas
… St John, Hampstead. The young doctor practised at Matlock Bath and Rugby, before deciding to emigrate to New Zealand. … for surgery, he is also known to have made a steam bath of his own design. By the time other doctors were …
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… the work: ‘[H]orses are shampooed; fowls have their legs bathed in warm water and their crops laden with all the …
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Part of story: Shows and field days
… beautiful woman named Waitaiki coming down to the water to bathe. Enthralled by her beauty, he captured her and swam …
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Part of story: Pounamu – jade or greenstone
… the affected water can become sick and die. People who bathe in it may suffer skin rashes and liver damage. Cause …
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Part of story: Plankton
… families’. Other hotels advertised ‘hot, cold and shower baths’, meals including ‘all the delicacies of the season’, … hand that was situated as far as possible from the hut. All bathing was done in the river, which was clean and warm. We …
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Part of story: Holidays
… workers and even had its own plumbing department to produce baths, sinks, pipes and spouting. From 1923 to 1929, when it …
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Part of story: Railways
… God.” So they shoot him all right. … I myself have been bathing that wound ever since.’ 2 Released, Rua …
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Part of story: Māori prophetic movements – ngā poropiti
… jumping off tables, falling down stairs, taking hot baths while drinking half a bottle of gin, and taking …
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Part of story: Abortion