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… he disliked alcoholic drink, dancing, and men and women bathing together at the municipal swimming pool. There was …
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Part of story: Local and regional government
… drew wide streets with land allocated for parks, public baths and other facilities. Some town plans were drawn up …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Early mapping
… long known to Māori, were discovered by Pākehā. A hotel and bathing pools were constructed and the track from Huntly and …
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Part of story: Waikato places
… as having been invaded by a crab. Its cure entailed bathing in salt water and the application of Sloan's …
Type: Biography
… wash day. Most 19th-century New Zealand homes didn’t have a bathroom, so a tin bath was brought into the kitchen (the warmest room in the …
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Part of story: Rhythms of daily life
… night from lofty shapes in trappings gay, The Empire City's bathed in mellow day; To night a thousand suns resplendent …
Type: Biography
… balneologist (specialist in the therapeutic use of baths) was appointed in 1902. Spa treatment of arthritis was …
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Part of story: Hospitals
… 32 children's playgrounds, 179 sports fields, two swimming-baths and two golf-courses. The extensive town-belt buffer …
Type: Biography
… had been born on 24 February 1860 near, and given his first bath in, the warm water basins of Te Tarata, the white …
Type: Biography
… toilets were faulty; 30% had no toilet, and only 6% had a bath and 13% a sink. Housing designs Many of the houses …
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Part of story: Māori housing – te noho whare
… of a certain rank, supported by a lifetime of cold baths, High Church services, Parisian corset-makers, and …
Type: Biography
… of women in swimsuits and in some cases holding parades of bathing beauties. Miss New Zealand Miss New Zealand – open …
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Part of story: Beauty contests
… he secured government subsidies for a public swimming bath and a new concrete bridge over the Ashley River, both …
Type: Biography
… a hoist for transferring hospital patients between bed, bath and wheelchair. At Assisi Home and Hospital in Matangi …
Type: Biography
… and eventually used a wheelchair. Salt water for treatment baths was piped from the coast to his house. As he was …
Type: Biography
… equipment, such as thermal, vapour and 'electric light' baths, and 'nebulisers, atomisers, and hydraulic air …
Type: Biography
… in England sent for her to complete her education at Bath High School, where she spent two years, gaining the …
Type: Biography
… New Zealand in 1863 to complete his secondary education at Bath, England. He studied medicine at Guy's Hospital, …
Type: Biography
… of the town belt in Wellington’s Mt Victoria, Turkish steam baths (saunas), and some public toilets. Gay graffiti in …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Men and women in the city
… midnight in their pyjamas. 1 Some bandsmen wore tartan bath towels as headdresses, while the drum major used a …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Brass and pipe bands