LOWER RENTS SOUGHT.
REQUEST BY RAILWAY TENANTS. AVELLINGTON, Sept. 22. Claiming that they had not had their rents reduced in accordance with the provisions of the National Expenditure Adjustment Act, tenants of railway houses presented a petition to Parliament in which they asked for their case to be heard by a select committee of the House. The petitioners, who made their ref>resentations through the New Zeaand Rail way Officers’ Institute, requested that the Act be amended, if necessary to compel the Railways Board to reduce rentals of railway dwelling houses in accordance with the principle of the legislation, or, alternatively, that they be permitted to vacate their houses, if they so desired, in order that they might make necessary adjustments to their living expenses which the operation of the first part of the Act involved.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 254, 23 September 1933, Page 5
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135LOWER RENTS SOUGHT. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 254, 23 September 1933, Page 5
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