Maungakawa

Maungakawa is located in the Waipa District, in the present day Te Miro settlement, northeast of the town of Cambridge, New Zealand.

[2] In 1868 10,000 acres (4,000 ha) was bought, or leased from Māori owners by Daniel Thornton,[3] and, after his death, a large house was put on what was later called Sanatorium Hill.

After returning from England after failing to have an audience with Queen Victoria, King Tawhiao convened a Māori parliament[a] at Maungakawa in 1894.

[5] Te Waikato Sanatorium for tuberculosis was officially opened in 1903 by Liberal Prime Minister, Sir Joseph Ward,[6] as one of the few the Public Health Department hospitals .

[4] Closure came in 1921,[7] during the second Massey Ministry, when Health Minister James Parr said half the beds were empty.