“One of the crimes of the twentieth century when looking for a house is to have a family,” said Mr. S. E. McCarthy, S.M., at the Christchurch Magistrate’s Court last week. “The Court and the community are faced with this serious house shortage. It is all right to talk about a White New Zealand, and of filling up the waste spaces with more population, but there is discouragement to a man taking a wife and rearing a large family, if he cannot rent a house suitable for a family of moderate means. Legislators should find a remedy for the position that has arisen.—-Lyttelton Times (
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Taranaki Daily News, 26 February 1921, Page 11
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104Page 11 Advertisements Column 4 Taranaki Daily News, 26 February 1921, Page 11
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