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Home ownership

Home ownership

The cover of a 1951 government booklet issued to state tenants explaining the benefits of home ownership. Here we see a young and happy family outside their recently purchased state house.

Alexander Turnbull Library
Reference: Eph-A-HOUSING-1951-01-recto
Further information and copies of this image may be obtained from the Library through its 'Timeframes' website, http://timeframes.natlib.govt.nz
Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

How to cite this page: 'Home ownership', URL: http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/media/photo/home-ownership, (Ministry for Culture and Heritage), updated 8-Jun-2007

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