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Mai Te Kapoterangi (holding child) and Turei Karaka (with cigarette) farewell Tei Tihi (second from left) and Kumeroa Te Kapoterangi (third from left) as reinforcements for the Maori Battalion depart from Rotorua in January 1944.

NZRSA Memorial at Rotorua

Historian Don Stafford spent most of his long career championing the history and heritage of his beloved city, Rotorua

Rotorua historian Don Stafford, (1927-2010)

Sophia Hinerangi, circa 1895. She wears a korowai.

Best known as ‘Guide Sophia’ she was the principal tourist guide of the famous Pink and White Terraces at Lake Rotomahana.

Joe Warbrick was the captain, coach and selector for the New Zealand Natives' tour of Britain in 1888-89, the first New Zealand representative rugby team to tour beyond Australia.

Maori men and women congregate outside the Rotorua courthouse on election day, possibly in 1908.

Guide Joseph Warbrick and three tourists were killed instantly when Waimangu geyser, then one of the largest and most active in the world, erupted unexpectedly.

Travellers queue to buy tickets at the Rotorua railway station booking office in the early 1930s. The inter-war years were the heyday of rail tourism in New Zealand. The office is decorated with posters and maps advertising rail trips, and it also includes a Government Tourist Bureau kiosk.

Image of Queen watching Maori kids jumping off bridge

Guide Rangi shows the Queen around a traditional Maori village and the impressive geysers at Whakarewarewa

The Duke of Edinburgh receives a gift during the Maori reception at Rotorua while Minister of Maori Affairs, E.B. Corbett looks on

Memorial to F Wylie in the Government Gardens, Rotorua. He was a Galatea soldier that fought in the Sth African War .

Rotorua First World War memorial cenotaph