LUCKY TENANT
LANDLORD GAVE HOUSE SYDNEY, June 20. Houses in Sydney have never been scarcer, or property values higher, yet recently a resident of Undercluffe was presented with an £BOO brick cottage. His landlord handed him the deeds, said simply: “It's yours. You can continue paying me the rent until I die. but I give you the property.” The landlord is a widower, has no relatives to whom he wished to leave the property. The tenant was a Commonwealth public servant, is now a corporal in the army-. Said the lucky tenant of the generous owner:
“He was a stranger to me until I became his tenant. He had afternoon tea with myself and my wife on a few occasions. Apart from the fact that we go on paying rent you might say that I was given the cottage for h cup of tea.’’ .
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21150, 19 July 1943, Page 4
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144LUCKY TENANT Gisborne Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21150, 19 July 1943, Page 4
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