OUR DOWNING STREET.
New Zealand has shown so much readiness, to sweep away interesting relics of its short history that it is quite refreshing to find so much opposition in Parliament, on sentimental grounds, to the proposal to convert the Prime Minister's official residence into offices and cut up the estate. It is said that the house is badly situated and almost uninhabitable in winter, and its' maintenance, is costly. There are at least two considerations to. be weighed against these-that the dignity of the position requires that the Prime Minister shall have an official home of this kind, and that the nation should be more intent on preserving historical associations than on destroying them. It is apparently intended that when the Prune Minister wishes to entertain, he shall do so in Parliament Buildings, but this would be a mean reduction of hospitality. As the home of successive Prime Ministers this house is rich in such associations, and it should l>3 valued as part of national history. The whole country should be interested in such a question.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 241, 11 October 1929, Page 6
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177OUR DOWNING STREET. Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 241, 11 October 1929, Page 6
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