NO GENERAL REMISSION
CROWN TENANTS AND RENT
TREATMENT ON MERITS
(By Telegraph.—Pre=s Association.) OAMARU, August 17. The Minister of Lands (the Hon. E. A. Hansom) visited Oamaru today and met a 'deputation of Crown tenants, who asked for the remission of half their arrears of rent, and that the balance owing be spread oyer a period. ■ The Minister replied that the policy of the Department was to treat each individual case on its merits. No general remission was possible. Asked by the Keturned Soldiers' Association for an assurance that no repossessed property under the D.S.S. Act would be offered to a civilian at a lower value than the amount owing without giving the mortgagor a chance of taking the property at that value, the.Minister replied that where a mortgagor was. a trier he would certainly not be passed over for a civilian.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 42, 18 August 1933, Page 8
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142NO GENERAL REMISSION Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 42, 18 August 1933, Page 8
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