FAIR RENTS ACT
UPPER HUTT CONVICTION
At. the Magistrate's Court at Upper Hutt F. W. Driscole was fined £15 and costs for a breach of the Fair Bents Act, 1936. The offence alleged was that the defendant, having obtained possession of a dwelling by a representation to the effect that the property had been sold and that the purchaser required possession, relet. the dwelling within six months without having first obtained from a Magistrate an authorising order. The case was heard before Mr. H. P. Lawry. S.M.. the defendant, being represented by Mr. E. W. R. Haldane, and the Department of Labour by Mr. F. C. Hay, Inspector of Factories. For the defence, it was submitted that the notice to quit having expired, anew tenancy had been entered into, but Mr. Lawry held that the tenant had vacated as a result of the representations made, and that an offence had therefore been committed.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 48, 26 February 1937, Page 10
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153FAIR RENTS ACT Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 48, 26 February 1937, Page 10
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