PAYMENT OF RENT
Aid Asked for State Tenants
A request that the Minister of Employment. Hon. A. Hamilton, should confer with the Unemployment Board as, to the possibility of making some arrangements with the State Advances Department for meeting part of the rents payable by tenants to enable them to remain in their homes, was made J>y Mr. A. S. Richards (Lab., Roskill) in an urgent question in the House of Representatives yesterday. Mr. Richards said a returned soldier, with a wife and three children, was recently before the court in Auckland on account of arrears. He- had been in possession for nine years and had paid off a second mortgage of £135, as well as having paid in full for the section. Being on relief work and earning an average of only 28/- a week, he had lost everything. Judgment had been given to vacate possession. The Minister said that, as a matter of general policy, the Unemployment Board could not agree to make any special arrangements for meeting any portion of the payments due by relief workers in respect of houses mortgaged to the State Advances Department.
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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 16, 13 October 1933, Page 10
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189PAYMENT OF RENT Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 16, 13 October 1933, Page 10
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