NOTICE TO QUIT

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 102, 24 January 1940, Page 5

NOTICE TO QUIT

War Widow’s Search For Another House

6y Telegraph—Press Association. AUCKLAND, January 23. Faced with notice to quit her present residence because of its pending demolition under threat of legal proceedings, an Auckland war widow, Mrs. C. A. .Wiley, Newmarket, is unable to secure a house. She applied for a State house more than two years ago. Mrs. Wiley said that two of her live sons were already serving their country. One was in the Achilles and the other iu camp. Two others lived with her. ’’While my sons are going off to war their mother cannot find a house in which to live,” Mrs. Wiley added. ’T am desperate. Today 1 have spent the whole day tramping round till my feet ache trying to lin'd a house. 1 have had my name down for a State house for two years and have beeu to see the Housing Department in Auckland and have written again and again. I have letters from everyone from the Minister, Mr. Armstrong, downward saying that my case would be borne iu juind with others in allocating houses. Not long ago they wrote to say there were 7000 other eases in Auckland to he considered and each one had to he treated on its merits. Coal'd there be any more serious case than mine? My sons and I will be out on the street ■with our furniture before long. "It is not as if I was a bad tenant,” Mrs. Wiley added. “I was shifted by piy landlord to this house from another .lie owned six months ago after 10 years in the previous bouse. Before that I was 12 years in a house and my rent .books prove that I have paid promptly and regularly. Since I have been here I have painted the walls of some rooms and made other improvements at my own expense. I have all my own furniture an'd cannot be expected to go to the expense of boarding or hiring furnished rooms.”

The house Mrs. Wiley occupies is an old one and is wanted for demolition to enable a block of fiats to be built. She has been advised by the Fair Rents Office in Auckland that the landlord is entitled to possession for this purpose. In a last effort to secure a State house Mrs. Wiley has now sent her notice to quit to the Housing Department in Wellington.