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Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 14 August 1929, Page 9

One; after another, familiar landmarks of Wellington are being swept away by the tide of progress, remarks the “Dominion.” In recent years many old buildings have disappeared under the housebreaker’s hammer, and the latest to suffer this indignity _is the historic and stately old mansion on the Wadestown Road known as “The Grange.” Tfuilt more than 60 years ago for the late Hon. William Barnard Rhodes, this many-roomed old house survived the gradual process of subdivision of the great estate which formerly surrounded it. but its end was definitely fixed when the grounds in which it had stood so long were cut up and sold recently. The tide of modern homo construction has flowed close up to its walls. The story of “The Grange” goes hack to the very earliest days of Wellington.