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Kōrero: Family welfare

Family benefits and home ownership

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Family benefits and home ownership

Politician Jim Anderton stands in front of the house he and his wife, Joan Caulfield, built in Māngere Bridge, Auckland, after they capitalised their family benefit for their first child in 1962. With this lump sum they bought the section and got a 3% mortgage to build the house. Next to Anderton is the second owner of the house, Cau Kam Chang, who had lived there from 1967.

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New Zealand Herald

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by Kenny Rodger

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Maureen Baker rāua ko Rosemary Du Plessis, Family welfare – A model welfare state, 1946–1969, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/26084/family-benefits-and-home-ownership (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Maureen Baker rāua ko Rosemary Du Plessis, i tāngia i te 31 March 2011.