LAST SOD HOUSE
DEMOLISHED AT TEMUKA LINK WITH THE EARLY DAYS The demolishing of the last sod house in Temu'ka marks the passing of another link with the earlydays of the settlement,, when the sod or cob was the prevailing style of building in the cast end of the town. Approximately 40 of these houses were built there about 1870. Intended originally as the site of the township, the settlement was known as Arowhenua, but, as the shopping centre of the town gravitated to the main road and the railway line; it became, known as Sod Town.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 85, 27 June 1944, Page 6
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97LAST SOD HOUSE Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 85, 27 June 1944, Page 6
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