Hogben House
Sir,—The man hoping to shift Hogben House intact instead of seeing it demolished is wasting his time. He has history against him. That is the last house remaining in New Zealand with any connection with this country’s most famous son — Ernest Rutherford, one of the finest experimental scientists to have graced our planet. In 1900 Rutherford returned to New Zealand to marry the daughter of the Hogben household and the wedding reception was held in the back garden. The other houses associated with Rutherford — his birthElace at Spring Grove, his boyhood ome at Foxhill, the adolescent home at Havelock, the flaxmill house in Taranaki — have been demolished, the most recent a mere four years ago. The aim appears to be to clear this country of all relics of this world-renowned figure and then we can get on with the job of building plastic replicas for the tourist trade.—Yours, etc., JOHN CAMPBELL. March 6, 1984.
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