“BORER-INFESTED” STATE HOUSES
Complaint By Miss Howard (From Our Parliamentary Reporter) WELLINGTON. June 26. State houses in Merrington crescent, Aranui, were riddled with borer, Miss M. B. Howard (Opposition, Sydenham) alleged in the House of Representatives this evening. Speaking during the Address-in-Reply debate, Miss Howard said that a family had found wood in the house, built only nine months before, to be “rotten with wormwood.” The State Advances Corporation refused to release the purchaser and told her she could sell it on the open market if she wanted to get rid of it: but the corporation was not interested in it. The Minister in charge of the corporation (Mr D. J. Eyre): Give me the case, word for word, and the address. Miss Howard: I went to the department. You get that from them. I threw my weight round a bit, and it is not inconsiderable. Now the department has agreed to buy the house back. “Many other houses in that Merrington crescent settlement are borer infested, and if the Minister would like to come down some time I will show him round,” Miss Howard added “There is something very rotten in the state of Denmark when that sort of racketeering, is allowed to go on. ’
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28314, 27 June 1957, Page 14
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