DEPRESSION RENT CONCESSIONS
REVERSION TO FAIR BASIS [Pee United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, June 28. Reference was made by the Attorney General (Hon H. G. R. Mason) in a statement to complaints made about the action of the State Advances Corporation in raising house rents. It was reported that in the Hutt Valley the rents on some houses had advanced, by from 2s 6d to 8s 6d per week. Mr Mason said that the hair Rents Act passed last session applied to the Government just as fully as to any private individual. There was no desire on the part of the State Advances Corporation to secure a general increase of rents. In many cases, however, where the incomes of the tenants had. been seriously reduced during the depression, the corporation had accepted very greatly reduced rents in order to assist them. Where, however the circumstances of the tenants had improved sufficiently to enable them to pay a fair rent the corporation had written suggesting that the rent should revert to a fair basis.
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Evening Star, Issue 22687, 29 June 1937, Page 3
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172DEPRESSION RENT CONCESSIONS Evening Star, Issue 22687, 29 June 1937, Page 3
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