HUNT FOR HOMES.
Every, day produces a crop of incidents pointing to the urgent need of measures to relieve London's overcrowding. Seeking a. bedroom for a business visitor from the country, a City man telephoned to 48 hotels before the accommodation was secured. A . woman told the Bloomsbury County Court Registrar that sho had been out looking for apartments ' every day since Armistice Day without result. The same Registrar was asked to give a landlord possession of a house:occupied by a man who said he had nine children, the oldest of whom was just going to work.
"When can you go out?" asked tho Registrar. "When can I get in,, you mean," replied tho defaulting tenant. "Do you think it is an easy thing to find rooms for a man and his wife and nine children?"
The Registrar admitted that it was not oasy', and gave tho man. fourteen days' grace. • .. .
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Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 103, 3 May 1919, Page 10
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151HUNT FOR HOMES. Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 103, 3 May 1919, Page 10
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