New Zealand TB Mason Colony Maungakawa Sanatorium Postcard
New Zealand TB Mason Colony Maungakawa Sanatorium Postcard
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New Zealand TB Mason Colony Maungakawa Sanatorium Postcard
Printed Postcard Muir and Moodie A90107 publisher Wilkinson Cambridge shows the TB Sanatorium at Maungakawa [waikato]
the card is not used and is in nice order.
In September 1902 part of the Thornton’s Maungakawa Hill property was sold to the government for the sum of £4000 and they established the first open air sanatorium for Tuberculosus sufferers in New Zealand. The Thornton home was now officially called Te Waikato Sanatorium.
