KEEN DEMAND FOR HOUSES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 17828, 8 July 1921, Page 9

KEEN DEMAND FOR HOUSES

43 APPLICATIONS FOR ONE. ORDER TO VACATE IN 3 MONTHS. The difficulty in obtaining houses and the keen demand for them was illustrated in the Magistrate's Court yesterday, before Mr. W. R. McKean, S.M., by Mr. Sullivan, counsel for the tenant in a tenement case, who stated that 43 applications had been received for one house which was being vacated at six o'clock that morning. In regard to the case before the Court,' he stated that his client, a married woman, found ifj impossible to »et another house, and it would be a great hardship if she was turned out of her present abode. Mr. Nutsford, for the owner, said his client was waiting to get into the house before he married. Before coming to Court plaintiff had offered defendant a month free of rent if she would give up possession at the end of that time. She would not agree, however. Mr. Sullivan replied that as his client had nowhere else to go one month's notice was insufficient. He w&uld ask for six months' notice. Mr. Nutsford said he would agree to three months* notice, and both parties being agreeable, an order for possession was made to be operative in three months' time.