MARUIA SPRINGS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 9 January 1931, Page 6

MARUIA SPRINGS

CURATIVE PROPERTIES

(Bj Telegraph—Press Association) WESTPORT, 7th January. A Buffer resident who has just returned from Maruia mineral springs gives a glowing account of their curative properties. He suffered from rheumatism, but had been freed of the complaint. While he was there a woman suffering from rheumatism came to see what benefit she could derive, and she was not only freed of rheumatism but also of goitre. When she was there two hundred people came to the springs, but there is no attendant. There are six baths for men and five for woman, but as there is no notice outside to distinguish one from the other, smbarrassing situations sometimes arise.

The Buller resident urges that an attendant be placed in charge of the baths to see that they are kept clean, and also be invested with power to protect bird life in the vicinity of the. springs, as many, youths came there with rides and destroyed native birds and the beau tiful New Zealand parrots, which are now very rare. Protection of the bush there, which is destroyed by campers, is also urged, as it adds to the beauty of the surroundings, and also affords shelter for campers. LEWIS PASS ROAD REASONS FOR COMPLETION (By Telegraph—Special to “The Mail”) CHRISTCHURCH, Bth January. “One of the desirable features of the completion of the Lewis Pass highway would be that the route would lead direct to the Maruia mineral springs,” said Mr P. R. Cliniie, secretary of the Canterbury Progress League to-day in commenting on a glowing account of the curative properties of the Maruia waters given by a Buller resident who has just returned from the springs. “Access to the Maruia Springs is poor at present, the only way being from Reefton,” Mr Cliniie said. “To popularise such a place, and make it available to more people, it is essential that access should be good and the Lewis Pass road would provide such access. The road to Maruia is the road that would be a portion of the main highway if the Lewis Pass work is completed. It is only a matter of extending the Maruia road over the Lewis Pass to Canterbury. I do not know exactly what the properties of the springs are, but when we were at Reefton we heard of quite a number of cases of reported cures. We have not submitted the waters to a test, but if the testimony which we have heard can be accepted then the water is capable of effecting cures. The water seems to be hotter than the water at Hanmer.”