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In the 1990s, Rotorua was the place families flocked to for hours of hydroslide fun.
Leisure World, with its towering cascades - including the terrifying "Black Hole" - attracted locals and visitors from around the Bay of Plenty.
But after a steady decline, the theme park closed in 2008 and today Rotorua has no permanent hydroslides.
Rotorua Mayor Tania Tapsell has made it her mission to change that.
"I really want a hydroslide," she exclaimed at the end of a mayoral candidate forum in August.
Tapsell went on to be re-elected in a landslide to her second term and has made a hydroslid
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