HOUSING CONDITIONS
PENSIONERS COMPLAIN MINISTER APPROACHED (Special to Times)' WAIHI, Thursday In a letter to the Minister of Housing, the Hon. H. T. Armstrong, Mr J. Thorn, M.P. for Thames, stated that he had been approached at Waihi by a number of pensioners complaining of their housing conditions, and asking whether it would be possible to have pensioners' houses built in the town. The total number of pensioners in Waihi. including miners, was 465. Mr Thorn stated. He could not understand why nothing had been done to construct houses for them in Waihi, and requested the Minister to go into the matter at his earliest convenience.
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Waikato Times, Volume 123, Issue 20692, 30 December 1938, Page 6
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