FIVE GUINEAS FOR FIRST BORN IN STATE HOUSE
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Mr Eee Will Pay up Even if Quints Win the "Rece"
(By Telegraph-
WELLINGTON, This Day. An announcement that he intonded giving a bivthday gift of £5 5/- to the mother of the first baby born in a State-owned house was made yesterday by the Under-Secretary in Charge of Housing, Mr. J. A. Lee He eaid he did not know whetlier to call it a Stork Derby or "the Oaks. but he stipulated that the mother should be a bona-fide tenant and not a visitor. Asked what he would do in the event of twins being born, Mr. Lee replied that, even at tho risk of going i "broke," he was prepared to glve £5 5/- each if qiuntupletA won t-he
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 210, 21 September 1937, Page 7
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