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Waikato Independent, Volume XXX, Issue 3202, 22 February 1930, Page 5

The danger of taking thermal waters indiscriminately and without medical advice was emphasised at a recent meeting of the New Zealand Tourist League, when it was reported that many visitors to R-otorua and other resorts were thoroughly catholic in their patronage of the waters from the various springs. Only people in the pink of health could afford to be so, aid Mr Walnutt. He mentioned several jases where careless indulgence in mineral waters had proved disastrous. In ouo instance a man and his wife from South Africa, both developed rheumatic- complaints after three weeks at Rotorua, and were on the point of leaving the town in a very vexed frame of mind when their attention was directed to the cause. Alter some persuasion he had them seek the advice of the balneologist at Rotorua, who found that the visitors had been imbibing water wholly unsuited to their health. They agreed to take different treatment, and in two weeks were in perfect health, and very glad that they had gone to Rotorua.