FARM DWELLINGS
AMENITIES IN NORTH ISLAND. Analysing data collected about 462 dairy farmers’ dwellings in the North Island, the Social Science Research Bureau tabulates 438 as being supplied with running water chiefly from tanks. In 31 cases there was no drainage. Electricity was available in 413 dwellings out of the 462, and in all but 42 cases was taken advantage of. Of these 413 dwellings having electricity connected, 354 had an electric iron (77 per cent), 133 an electric vacuum cleaner (28.8 per cent), 113 had an electric range (24.5 per cent), 107 an electric hot water cistern (23.2 per cent), 55 an electric washing machine (11.9 per cent.), 19 an electric sewing machine (4.1 per cent.), and 18 an electric refrigerator <3.9 per cent.). Three hundred and eighty-one (82.5 per cent) dwellings had a radio, and 291 (63 per cent), a telephbne installed. A highpressure hot-water service was installed in 336 dwellings, the remaining 126 having only a low-pressure service or no Service at all.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 September 1938, Page 3
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