HOUSE OF CLAY
WHY I BUILT AN ADOBE COTTAGE: OR PUAWANANGA. By Charlotte Preston Larkin. Printed and published by the Northland Garette, Kawakawa. HAT most people will want to know is not so much ,why Mrs. Larkin built her cottage, but how. They will know if they follow her story to the end, and it may have been her plan to make them do this. But it is more likely that she put the why first because it seemed to her of most importance. What most readers will regard as the real sensation-building a house with her
own hands for £119-she deals’ with quite casually, but fills pages explaining why the house-building impulse first carried her away. There is some help from On High in it, and some from her neighbours, but whether she is waiting for the weather to clear or for the "Plan Divine of the Master Builder" she is a personality, full of courage and a genuinely contagious vivacity.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 430, 19 September 1947, Page 13
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162HOUSE OF CLAY New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 430, 19 September 1947, Page 13
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