The Viceroy home guide : useful everyday hints for the home. 3rd ed. (Adelaide : Wilkinson, 1914)
The cover illustration of this book shows a typical, modest but comfortable,
Australian house of the period. In the section headed “Homes for the people” we
find a disquisition on the advantages of home ownership compared to renting. In
particular the benefits conferred by the Government in passing the 1910 Advances
for Homes Act are dwelt upon.
To enable the man almost without capital to purchase his own home is to put in
his hands a most satisfactory means of saving, one of the finest forms of
insurance against the troubles of the future, and to add to the happiness of the
whole household by the knowledge that they are acquiring their own home; there
is a fascination to all the family in owning a house rather than having to pay
rent to the dreaded landlord. (p. 69)
