DEARTH OF HOUSES.

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 253, 24 October 1919, Page 10

DEARTH OF HOUSES.

TENANTS' DIFFICULTIES. The scarcity of houses was once more referred to in the -Magistrate's Court yesterday afternoon. An order was • prayed for possession of a tenement and payment of arrears of rent. The occupant of the house -was a woman with seven children under sixteen years of age. Mr. J. W. Dickson, who asked that she should be allowed two months instead of one, in order to afford extra time to get a house, said there was the utmost difficulty in getting a house at the present time. Mr. E. C. Cutten, S.M., said he had allowed one month, which ,vas the longest he had yet given. ilr. Dickson: Make it two months conditionally upon the rent being paid re _- larly. °' Hia Worship: That would create a precedent in such cases. Mr. Dickson said that houses were so scarce that sales were hung up because possession could not be obtained, as the occupants could not get other tenements. Mr. Cutten said the woman had his utmost sympathy, and he would not make an order if there were any way out of it; hut here was a caee where "there were arrears of rent, and the plaintiff had, therefore, a right to an order, and he had no option; hut to grant two months would establish a precedent. Mr. Dickson: Each herring must hang by its own tail. After a little further discussion the case was adjourned until next Tuesday.