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Last time I was in the Spa Hotel was on Saturday of the weekend Norman Kirk died, 1974.
A mate and I met up with some Taupo bushmen he knew from his woodchopping comps.
They wouldn't let us buy any grog. They were buying a wooden crate of Lion Brown big bottles at a time, all with the tops removed. I thought I was going to drown.
The old place had atmosphere. No idea what it's like now. IIRC it may have been badly flooded since I was there.
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