Kōrero: Washing, cleaning and personal hygiene

Safix toilet paper (2 o 2)

Safix toilet paper

In the 19th and early 20th centuries some households were lucky enough to use commercially manufactured toilet paper; others made do with newspaper cut into squares. This roll of Safix toilet paper is kept at Highwic, a historic house in Auckland. 

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Heritage New Zealand – Pouhere Taonga
Reference: XXH.2962

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Te tuhi tohutoro mō tēnei whārangi:

Kerryn Pollock, 'Washing, cleaning and personal hygiene - Toilets', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/mi/object/40803/safix-toilet-paper (accessed 21 April 2024)

He kōrero nā Kerryn Pollock, i tāngia i te 5 Sep 2013