WORKLESS MAN'S HOUSE.
MAGISTRATE'S DECISION. '.'This is an unusual case, and it seems to me the : Department should be in a position to find the man a cheaper house," remarked Mr. F. H. Levien, S.M., at the Otahuhu Magistrate's Court, •when the State Advances Department made application for possession of one of its properties, occupied by an unemployed man and his family. The man said he had been paying 10/ weekly under arrangement with the Department, and had paid regularly for over 12 months. This arrangement was to continue until he could find a cheaper house or until he could pay the full Tent, 15/ weekly. The Department had promised to find him one of its other houses at 10/. Counsel for the Department said it was up to the man to search for such a house. The magistrate said it might take a man montlis to go round looking at every empty house to find if it was a Department house and one .he could afford. It would only take the Department ten minutes to find what; houses it had all over the district. He adjourned the case to enable the matter to be settled between the parties as previously arranged. .
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 96, 26 April 1933, Page 10
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