PASSING OF OLD RELICS.
WIKI KEMP'S COTTAGE. DESOLATION AND DECAY. [BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT, j WANGANUI. Sunday. The lack of interest taken by the people of to-day in the gradual passing of old relics and buildings is instanced in the dilapidated state of Wiki Kemp's cottage. It is not so many years ago since ' the name of the late Wiki Kemp, daughter of Major Kemp, was familiar to all. The residence she occupied is still to be seen adjacent to the old pa, but a state of desolation meets the eye. The once trim cottage has broken windows, the verandahs are approaching complete decay, and before many years the demolisher will be at work if the local Antiquarian Society does not make a move. Once the cottage was approached by a trim pathway, with plots of flowers and ornamental trees and shrubs, but today there is no garden, the ornamental trees are a wilderness, and the old gate hangs in a tangle of growth. The original occupant has gone, and gone is the glory of her garden. Perhaps, like the blockhouses, someday when it is gone, there will bo an attempt to replace Wiki Kemp's cottage.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19957, 28 May 1928, Page 10
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196PASSING OF OLD RELICS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19957, 28 May 1928, Page 10
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