FINDING A HOME

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 140, 14 June 1924, Page 6

FINDING A HOME

FOR A MOTHER OF THIRTEEN

GOVERNOR-GENERAL'S INTEREST.

(BI TELEGRAPH.— SPECIAL TO THE EOST.)

.. AUCKLAND, This Day. Tho deep interest which > the GoVer-nor-General, Lord Jellicoe, takes in all classes of the community was shown by the report which came under the notice of the members of a .public body this week. A mother, just forty years of age, who had an unbroken line of thirteen fine healthy children to look after, found it very difficult on account of the size of her family to get any house owner to lease her a dwelling, despite the fact that 'parents are advised to have large families and urged to keep the cradles full. The case was brought under the notice of the Gover-nor-General, and it was' one which greatly appealed to him as being of such a nature that the Government should step in and help to aid those who were such desirable citizens. The solution was that the Advances to Settlers' Department has . granted a loan bo that a section may be bought andi a suitable house put up in which to house the- fifteen souls. The- interest, which will have-to be paid proves more moderate than the rent which is now being charged. - The mother, on whom the chief duty devolves of rearing the big family, says that she would not part with one of them, and that she is satisfied that every one- of them will make a good citizen and that her day of leisure will come when they have all reached that age when they cau provide for themselves.