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Kōrero: Volcanic Plateau region

Greville hot air baths treatment

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Greville hot air baths treatment

The Greville hot air bath applied hot air to a patient for therapeutic purposes.These men are being treated at the Rotorua bathhouse around 1926. The spa was marketed vigorously in the 1920s, and this photograph was probably part of the promotional effort.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, New Zealand Railways Collection (PAColl-5167)

Reference: PA1-f-051-27-3

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Malcolm McKinnon, Volcanic Plateau region – Geothermal tourism and spas, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/15160/greville-hot-air-baths-treatment (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Malcolm McKinnon, i tāngia i te 2 March 2009, updated 1 May 2015.