PRIME MINISTER’S HOUSE
TURNED TO ACCOUNT. BY TRANSPORT DEPARTMENT. (Special to Times.) WELLINGTON, Monday. The Prime Minister’s residence in Tlnakori Road, an historic edifice that has outlived its splendour and utility, is at last to be turned to the definite service of the State. The new Transport Department, created by the present Government and sure to be a growing centre of administrative activity, is in need of a home for itself, and Sir Joseph Ward and the Minister in charge, the Hon. W. A. Veitch, have decided that the big house and spacious grounds that have harboured many Premiers and their families in the past, shall be turned to the purposes of the new department. There is no accommodation for the new department in the unfinished parliamentary buildings, which may not be enlarged for another decade, and the rent of suitable premises in any other part of the city would run well into four figures, even if such premises could be discovered. The Tinakori block, on the other hand, is immediately available and can be easily shaped to meet the needs of the transport service.
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Waikato Times, Volume 105, Issue 17687, 16 April 1929, Page 7
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