FAIR RENT.
Bir,—lt would b9 well if onr local politicians would read what, the Minister for Justice in New South Wales has to say about .the Fair Seat Act* This yote- - etching device turned out—as predicted —4o be the greatest disadvantage to the very class it was supposed to benefit, with the result that it is to be repealed at once. The building of houses to rent cannot V encouraged by creating landlords as criminals sad preventing them from getting the same rate of interest as is paid on debenturea. This policy has put a stop to building cottages in New South Wales, and has done so here, but the New South Welshmen do not seem to have gone as far as we have. Fancy, in God's Own Country, four yeara after the war is over, being unable to make a tenant pay his rent or to eject him, if he can prove that he was seat as far as Trenthaia camp and back I Many splen* did returned soldiers.are unable to rent a house or to borrow money on mortgage because a small minority refuse (under Government protection) to pay < either rent or- interest Does such legislation either benefit the soldiers or encourage people to build houses? The answer ib the amount.of money now being invested in bonds and debentures. H. E. Vail*.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18131, 1 July 1922, Page 12
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