Events In History
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25 August 1948Killer twister hits FranktonThree people were killed, 80 injured and about 150 buildings badly damaged by New Zealand's deadliest recorded tornado. The damage was estimated at more than £1 million. Read more...
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State housing
New Zealand's first state house was formally opened on 18 September 1937. But the government has provided rental housing for New Zealanders for more than a century. Explore the history of this country's various state housing schemes and their contribution to the New Zealand way of life.
- Page 8 - Outside the mainstreamMany of us associate the beginning of state housing with the hipped-roof cottages built by the first Labour government of the 1930s and '40s. But the origin of state housing has
