‘NOT NORMAL TENANT’
House Seen By The Queen (NX. Press Association) WELLINGTON. Feb. 14. The Minister of Housing (Mr Rae) said tonight that the Porirua State house tenant visited by the Queen was “not a normal State house applicant” The tenant’s home was a* inducement to come to New Zealand to work for the Government he said. Report* of the Queen's call mentioned that the family had been in New Zealand little more than one year. In 1955, the Government decided to provide each year a limited number of housing units to attract trained professional and technical staff from overseas, said Mr Rae. The tenant was paying * higher rent than normal State house tenants. He was engaged on th* Stat* housing project at Porirua. “It will be seen that this was an allocation under a special scheme, and not on* waich affected the normal State house applicant,” Mr Rae said.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30057, 15 February 1963, Page 10
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