NEW HOUSING ACT
FIRST CASES IN WELLINGTON.
By Telegraph—l’ress Association— CopyrJgb Wellington, Feb. 16. The' first cases under the new Housing Act. allowing a landlord seven per cent on the value of Iris premises, came before Magistrate Hunt yesterday, when the owner of several houses asked that tenants rents be raised. The tenants' counsel contended that no repairs had been made, but plaintiff contended there had been expenditure on repairs entitling her to increased rentals. In one case defendant had occupied a house for 24 years and the premises were still without gas or electric light. The rent for this was fixed at the rate now paid. Decision in the other cases was deferred pending the magistrate s personal examination of the houses.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume 49, Issue 7623, 17 February 1921, Page 3
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