Tile wretched state of some houses in New Zealand was commented upon by Mr. J. A. Lee, Parliamentary Undersecretary in charge of Housing, when speaking on the Government’s housing scheme in Auckland. Mr. Lee said when in Dunedin last year he found in Mafeking Terrace houses which had no hot water, were below the level of the road, and in which the tin baths were used for storing lumber. “I was forced to exclaim, ‘it is 1936, and Mafeking is not relieved yet.’ ” Mr. Lee added that he considered the bathroom in any house should be the most attractive part.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 175, 21 April 1937, Page 18
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