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Chateau Tongariro is closed - who gets its historic art treasure?

Kim Knight
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Senior journalist and restaurant critic·NZ Herald·
11 mins to read

Winter, 1890. The Hot Lakes district expects few visitors but today the Oxford coach carries eight.

Judge Richmond of Wellington is in Rotorua to take a course of baths; Carl Kahler is an artist who is sketching at Whakarewarewa. The artist doesn’t know it, but one day, his portrait of 42 angora cats will sell for $1.3m - and his oil rendition of the lost White Terraces will be the subject of government briefing papers.

In 1890, Kahler is short

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