POSSESSION OF HOUSE
"owner’s misrepresentation . [per PRESS ASSOCIATION.] CHRISTCHURCH, September 18. “This is the first prosecution of its kind which has come before me,” said Mr. Reid, S.M., when the Labour Department prosecuted Arthur . Leslie Choate for'a breach of the Fair-* Rents Act, by obtaining possession of a house from his tenant, on the representation that he needed .it for himself, and selling it within six months without a Magistrate’s order. The Prosecutor said that the tenant, Patrick J. Maggin, had vacated the house on -receipt of a written notice from Choate, who occupied the premises for only seven weeks, then .selling the house. The defence counsel said that Choate decided to sell the house, owing to the cost of needed repairs. Maggin was comfortably settled in another place. The S.M. imposed a fine of £l, and said that he had not been impressed by the way in which Maggin had brought the breach to the notice of the Labour Department.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 18 September 1940, Page 2
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