15 August 2025, Issue 1273
Buzz, hum and crackle It’ll probably make grown-ups, adults, seniors, all sentimental, even melancholy. Younger people will be bemused, bewildered and probably disbelieving. It’s a display called ‘Power to the People’ and it showcases more than 40 relics and artefacts
from the Western Bay Museum’s trove of treasures which illustrate the evolution of electricity in the region. How hydroelectricity impacted our lives. And it celebrates the man – a brainy handsome man by all accounts – who
electrified the Bay of Plenty. How we curled our hair before electricity, the machine that replaced Taniwha Soap and elbow grease for washing clothes as museum volunteer Jenny Gawith demonstrates, plus how we kept our feet warm, the typewriter metronome,
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a Cozy Glow heater out of 1928. Cozy by name, not by nature. The exhibition tracks how the waters of the Kaimai Range were harnessed to feed and develop household appliances. The story of local electricity is on pages 8-9. Photo / Brydie Thompson
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