Talk:Premier House

Tenants?
I know this may be an American-English usage but the Prime Minister and family are surely not tenants. Even Google defines a tenant as a person who occupies land or property rented from a landlord. Eddaido (talk) 11:10, 13 February 2018 (UTC)


 * In law a tenant is a person in possession of real property by any right or title. But I agree it sounds strange in this context. CoronaryKea (talk) 10:14, 10 February 2019 (UTC)

Housing the Prime Minister
The following cited passage in a government publication seems to lack reliability. No references appear today in Papers Past online to confirm the "quotes" (maybe the newspapers concerned have been lost?) and it does not appear to be "a damp flood-prone gully" either in the picture printed beside this paragraph in New Zealand History or now.

"That changed in 1865, when the government bought the premier a simple 22-year-old wooden cottage in Thorndon’s Tinakori Road. This was a damp, flood-prone gully, but it was close to Parliament. A Wellington newspaper, elated by the city’s new status, thought the £2900 price ‘cheap’. An Auckland paper called it a ‘monstrous waste of public money’." New Zealand History

An Auckland paper viewable within Papers Past did call the purchase "this piece of illegal extravagance". Eddaido (talk) 07:58, 7 May 2018 (UTC)