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2. A variety of jets of dry sulphurous vapour, for use in obtaining 
vapour-baths, or for inereasing the strength of sulphurous waters, will pro- 
bably be an important feature, and prove of great value in the hands of a 
skilful medical superintendent. 
8. All springs and waters for use ought to be at a good elevation above 
drainage-level, sufficient to allow of the waters being led by gravitation to 
any point suitable for the bath-buildings, and used as plunge, douche, 
Shower, or swimming baths, and to facilitate them being mixed, cooled, 
increased, or reduced in strength, as may be found advisable. 
4. It is necessary to have an abundance of clear cold water also, at an 
elevation sufficient to command by gravitation all the bathing-places. A 
good command of water-power is also of great value and an important 
feature in this scheme. 
5. The situation must be easily accessible, beautiful, and diversified in 
landscape. It must afford superior sites for all sorts of residences, some 
close to the thermal waters, and others as far from these as will ensure the 
purest air at all times. The soil ought to be good and fit for the formation 
of extensive orchards, gardens, and pleasure-grounds. All the most won- 
derful features of the Lake Country must be within easy distance. 
6. The situation must be near to, and within easy reach of, agricultural 
and pastoral supplies of all kinds. The consumption of these would be 
very large, and such a thing as scarcity of any one article, as sometimes 
occurs now in that country, must not be possible in an establishment like 
this. 
Whakarewarewa presents all these points in a high degree of excellence, 
and in some is unapproached by any other place. It is situated two and a 
half miles southward of Ohinemutu. The new township and suburbs of 
Rotorua extend within a few hundred yards of it. The thermal and 
medicinal springs extend from Turekore, the famous spout bath, to nearly 
the Taupo Road, about three-quarters of a mile along the south-east bank 
of the Puarenga, at elevations from the level of to, say, twenty feet above 
the stream. This river, the name of which, Puarenga, means Lily Flower, 
is a considerable volume of water, forming cascades, rapids, and deep pools 
on a rocky bed. There is probably more than one hundred horse-power 
available, and easily obtained by placing wheels in pieturesque positions for 
the purposes to be hereafter noted. 
The situation cannot be surpassed in the Lake District for beauty. The 
hills, part of the range enclosing the Rotorua Basin, and through which the 
Puarenga has cut a narrow gorge, give shelter on the south-west and south, 
leaving the aspect open to the north-east, north, and north-west. On the 
north bank of the river are a few low hills, from which extends an almost 
