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This stylish Wairarapa bach has been reworked to double its living space. Early Wairarapa settler Charles Bidwill was made of stern stuff. The ancestor of Wellington artist Diana Bidwill, he arrived in the Wairarapa with a flock of merinos to establish one of the earliest sheep stations in the country. His home was two tōtara bark huts on the banks of the Ruamāhanga River, one for sleeping and one for cooking. During the great Wairarapa earthquake of 1855, Charles was caught in the Hutt Valley at a friend’s house, which fell down around their ears. The next day he walked all the way back to his South Wairarapa home on the virtually destroyed road that crossed the Remutaka Range, jumping the chasms and clambering through the landslides as the earth continued to shake. ....