NEW RESIDENCE
FOR PRIME MINISTER. (Per Press Association. —Copyright.) WELLINGTON, April 28. The Government has purchased for the use of the Prime Minister, the residence of the late Mr F, W. Man-, ton, ‘ at '66, 1 Harbour View Road, Northland. , \V
Mr Savage indicated to-day that he would he transferring from his Molesworth Street residence to Northland in a few weeks’ time. His new home has eight rooms and overlooks the harbour. . . ?.
Mr Savage’s departure from the precincts of Parliament Buildings will break a tradition- that has .endured for years. It has always been considered advisable in the past that the Prime Minister should live as close as possible to Parliament., Buildings, a practice that ■no doubt .had much to commend it in the old days of indifferent transport and when “stonewalls” and long sitting; hours were a prominent feature of. Parliamentary procedure. . ' With more regular and better defined hours in the: House off Representatives and • the modern means of transport, the necessity for the Prime Minister being within easy call ha 3 largely disappeared.
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Hokitika Guardian, 28 April 1939, Page 5
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