MAGIC WATERS OF MOREE

Hokitika Guardian, 15 November 1923, Page 1

MAGIC WATERS OF MOREE

(By Paul Cupid.) We have read ot the Pool of Silonni, of the AYaters of Lourdes, and'of several other pools and water* to which the afflicted in many parts of tho world have made pilgrimages 61 vast distance.-; ami have been healed by bathing in these sanctified or miracle waters. But in till these instances the euros effected were always attributed to supernatural agency, and, no doubt, much depended on the faith of the afJlieted in supernatural forces impregnating the waters with their wonderful ofli cuev.

No doubt, in eases of the highly strung, nervous temperament, or to the mind flooded with religious fervour, relict, or perhaps a. permanent cure could be effected by immersion in these waters, even it they possessed no spiritual power whatever. That many cures were brought about, there is ample evidence in support; hut just what manner of patients, from a. mental standpoint, the healed persons were, there is nothing to show. Out here, ill our own land, at the Aloreo Imre, however, we have an inexhaustible supply of hot mineral-charged waters that without laying any claim to anything super-natural, may- well lay claim to he culled the magic waters of the Afoiei'.

Reading of cures or alleged cures of eases of long standing; rheumatism, sciatica, and skin troubles still left me sceptical, till I had this opportunity of ■seeing for myself the eflkacy or otherwise of the water that comes from the bore at the baths at Aloree.

A couple of months ago a gentleman friend of mine, ilion a resident of the Richmond River, and who could only move about laboriously on a pair of crutches, ami who suffered agonising pain night and day, made up his mind to try the Aloree baths. There was nothing nervous or ultra religions about this man. He was, indeed, as Shakespeare put it “A plain blunt mail." who did not believe in miracles or kindred manifestations. Two days alter 1 reached here, I was hailed by someone in the distance and was amazed to see my friend approaching at the double, thoroughly recovered and without the slightest pain or ache to remind him of the hopeless-looking wreck lie was eight or ID weeks before. Following oil this I came across two others with whom 1 had been acquainted and who had been hopeless invalid*

could neither dress nor undress himself, and the other with a form of skin disease that had been of years standing, and which he tried by many other means to remove unsuccessfully. These two, after taking a eon tinned course of the hot baths and drinking copiously of the hot water for a few weeks, were as agile ill limb and as clear in the skin as they had been in the days before aflilietion crossed the pathway of their lives. These are eases of actual cures, noi attributable to faith or supernatural agency, but to the potency of the water .that- comes from its mineral-charged subterranean source. This water, heated to a temperature of 120 deg. Fall, deep down in nature’s cauldron simmering over Vulcan’s furnace, possesses an inexplicably soothing, healing power iliat without doubt is immeasurably supplemented by imbibing the water frequently and in liberal quantities. It is little wonder that these bore baths are a source of income to the Aloree Municipal Council ot £100!) n year, or that if properly “pushed” along business lines, and their potency brought more prominently before the public, this sum could largely be augmented.