DEMOLITION OF LANDMARK
WELLINGTON HOME3TEAL SCOUT JAMBOREE SITE (For Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. One of the oldest buildings in the Wellington province, the well-known Barton homestead at Heretaunga, Hut, Valley, is -being pulled down by Boy Scouts, who will use the wood and iron for the buildings of the centennial jamboree. The homestead was begun within r. year or two of the foundation ol Wellington by Mr. Richard Barton, who arrived in 1240 and was one oi ■ho first Dottier? in the Hutt Valley. R took some time to construct and. because of its size, was a place of some note in the early colony—a house of 22 rooms at a time when Government House was no more than a five-room cottage.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19998, 25 July 1939, Page 16
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123DEMOLITION OF LANDMARK Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19998, 25 July 1939, Page 16
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