BOARD AND LODGING
Sir, —As a returned soldier with six years of oversees service and attempting to get setlted down in this great little city, I find it more than difficult to obtain lull board at a reasonable price. Why must these house-owners fleece the ‘ hard earnings of returned soldiers? I can quote several examples of exorbitant charges made by these persons. In one c£se full board is offered to working men at £3 a week —and share room with five other men. In another case 35s a week is charged for bed and morning tray. This is typical of treatment served out to men who helped to fight and keep the landlords from having their houses occupied by the Japanese or the Nszis. Very shortly I shall be forced to take a “blind alley” job to find decent board outside Christchurch. It is about time the Government demanded stabilised prices for board.—Yours, etc., DISILLUSIONED. July 2, 1947.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25226, 3 July 1947, Page 5
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