The schoolhouse will be a council owned building
Ōtorohanga Museum has received pledges of $32,000 for the removal of Rewarewa School house from Barber Road and restoration at the museum site.
Mayor Max Baxter proposed the empty century old building be offered to the museum for $1 in April before the council decided to give the museum until July 31 to accept a council offer and a further year to remove it from the site.
Strategy and community group manager Nardia Gower told The News the council’s offer to the museum will come with no purchase price.
“Essentially it will still be a council owned building on council property. To highlight this; in the unlikely case the museum ever relocated or closed council would retain ownership of all the buildings on that site.”
She said the $1 reserve may be the starting point for a future offer to the public for purchase and removal, should the schoolhouse’s relocation to Ōtorohanga Museum not proceed.
