PAYING RENT WITH PRODUCE.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20551, 20 May 1932, Page 11

PAYING RENT WITH PRODUCE.

OFFER OF PUMPKpS. SYDNEY, May 32. Landlords in some areas in tho vicinity of Sydney are not averse to accepting their rent in .produce, the War Service Homes Commission, refused the offer of a tenant who wanted to pay his Tent with 300 or 400 pumpkins. At Parramatta, a TSpnan who lost his job, pays his landlord the week s rent with dressed poultry and egg*j™« landlord is a smallgoodsman, and finas the arrangement excellent. At Merrylands, a mechanic offered to keep his landlord's car in order and to supply him with milk and «gga *<» r his rent of 17s 6d a week. A number of vegetables were to be thrown in by .the tenant. . This arrangement has been f olo * on for about a year. The landlord states that his car ka» never been in better order, and the agreement van* the mechanic, who has his own cow and about 50 head of poultry. - m • At Fairfield,.* Maltese w leotuig-a hut and five acres of land from a com* patriot. He pays his rent in potatoes, pumpkins, melons, and Swede turnip* A dairyman at St. Marys; who kas been having a bad time in the milk w, asked the landlord to accept a number, of poddy calves and heifers as payment.. The landlord, another dairy-farmer, did so.. . A Bankstown landlord, issued an eviction summons upon his unemployed tenant, but withdrew it when the oeeupier of his house made an offer to pay the rent in wood. Arrears wer» £ll, and the landlord agreed to accept 20 loads of wood, and two additional loads each week.

■ At Liverpool shortly after Christmas a houseowner accepted over 100 cases of fruit from a tenant for arrests.

Afterwards, up till last month, the rent was paid weekly with fruit, the landlord having established an unemployed son in a fruit retailing business at Auburn.