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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 18 June 1924, Page 8

The deep interest which the GovernorGeneral takes in .all classes of the community was shown by a report which came under the notice of members of a public body this week, states the Auckland correspondent of the Lyttelton Times. A mother, just forty years of age, who has 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 are urged to keep the cradles full. The case was brought under the notice of the Governor-General, and it was one which greatly appealed to him as being o£ such a. nature that the Government should help those who were such desirable citizens. The solution was that the Advances to Settlers Department has granted a loan so that a section may be bought and 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.