Places

Date: 1927

From: [Ephemera of octavo size, relating to Rotorua as a tourist destination. 1890-1929]

By: New Zealand. Department of Tourist and Health Resorts; Skinner, William Alexander George, 1865-1939

Reference: Eph-A-TOURISM-Rotorua-1927-01

Description: Booklet promoting the Rotorua Baths and evaluating their waters: the acid sulphur baths including the Priest and the Postmaster; and the alkaline sulphur waters including the Rachel. Also discusses the mud baths, the Radium Bath, the Duchess Bath and the Blue Bath; the Aix and Vichy systems of douche massage; the dry massage and electrical treatment including Dr Schnee's electric multipolar bath, the Bergonie apparatus, electric-light bath, Greville hot-air baths and diathermy. Another section discusses the drinking of water - Rachel water and water brought from the springs at Te Aroha. There is a page on the Sanatorium, a list of fees for all the health treatments, and a timetable of bathing hours. The front cover shows a photograph of the Bath House, Rotorua. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 16 pages, each 124 x 150 mm.

Date: 1924

From: [Ephemera of octavo size, relating to Rotorua as a tourist destination. 1890-1929]

By: New Zealand. Department of Tourist and Health Resorts; Messenger, Arthur Herbert, 1877-1962; Skinner, William Alexander George, 1865-1939

Reference: Eph-A-TOURISM-Rotorua-1924-01

Description: Brochure advertising the attractions of Rotorua. The cover wrap shows colour illustrations by A H Messenger of trampers on the Tongariro Crossing, a traditionally dressed Maori girl fishing guide beside a lake, and an open-topped motor car driving beside a lake. Inside is text, with photographs of Rotorua, Guide Rangi at the Model Pah, a Maori welcome at Whakarewarewa, steaming pools, the Waimangu Geyser, Maori cooking food in a hot pool, a Maori hangi, the Bath Building, and a bird's-eye map of the thermal region. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Brochure, 7 pages 242 x 310 mm, folded to 242 x 103 mm. Provenance: Purchased from J R Witte, United States, in 2006.

Date: 1910 - 1925

From: [Ephemera of octavo size, relating to Rotorua as a tourist destination. 1890-1929]

By: Tanner Brothers Ltd (Publishers); Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972

Reference: Eph-A-TOURISM-Rotorua-1920s-01

Description: Perforated postcard shows twelve scenes (untitled) including children in a hot pool, steaming pools, cooking in hot water, steaming cliffs, the Bath House, town buildings and street. In rows across, from top left: 1. Whakarewarewa village, roughly east of the main thermal reserve 2. View approximately west from the main Bath House, across the Government Gardens 3. Kuirau Park or Whakarewarewa 4. Whakarewarewa 5. Brent's Hotel, looking east along Hinemoa Street 6. Main Bath House (now the museum) in Government Gardens, no earlier than 1911 when the gabled wing at the right was added 7. "Penny haka" at Whakarewarewa or Ohinemutu 8. Probably at Whakarewarewa 9. View from the Bath House platform looking roughly west to north-west: the band rotunda (completed in 1900 and since relocated) at left and Te Runanga Tearooms (built 1903) at right. 10. View east along Arawa Street towards Prince's Gate archway into the Government Gardens. The old post office (built 1914) on far right. 11. Sightseeing launch on Lake Rotomahana, by the steaming cliffs estimated to be near the site of the Pink Terraces, destroyed in the 1886 eruption of Mt Tarawera and the adjacent area. 12. Waikite geyser sinter deposits at Whakarewarewa thermal reserve. The photographs were likely taken in different years, the latest dating from the 1920s. The photographer of some of the images was Sydney Charles Smith, 1888-1972. Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: 12 photographic prints, separated by perforations on card 90 x 138 mm.