The new -block of State flats,
116 separate'units, in Dixon Street, \yas /opened this ■afierncon by the Minister of Works •-.it Mr.' Semple);,.- Mr.\:Semple . said the site had been selected by Mr. ■Georg:.c"Jiu-ii£e.ri;hi%i Mayor of ■Wellington, as his first-place;of residence. The house which-Mr,' Hunter had brought out in ■ sections from England bad stood there more than' 40 years. There was.accommodation for 234 people in.the 116' omits, the arv^as of which were, .either 540.
square :feel or 560 square feet..Mr. Semple said that.the Housing-Con-struction Department--had -built 16,828 houses and only 260 flats, including the new block, making the percentages of dwelling-^ .-.units erected" ,98i of houses . and :lh o*
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 57, 4 September 1943, Page 10
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108Untitled Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 57, 4 September 1943, Page 10
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