GOVERNMENT TENANTS
SUB-LETTING DISCOURAGED (Peu United Pkess Association.] WELLINGTON, August 5. _ Suh-letting will be discouraged in tenants of Government houses said tho Under-Secretary for Housing (Mr "J. A. Lee) to-day. Mr Lee stated that the intention was to let each house so as to provide for a N maximum occupation of rooms by the renter’s family. Referring to the case of an unemployed man endeavouring to secure one of the State houses, Mr Lee said they could not be dogmatic about things like that. A man might be on sustenance, but the income of the family as a whole might be £7 a week. The letting of the houses would be determined on the combined basis of the need of a family for a house and its capacity as a whole to pay the rent.
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Evening Star, Issue 22720, 6 August 1937, Page 13
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135GOVERNMENT TENANTS Evening Star, Issue 22720, 6 August 1937, Page 13
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