TENANT'S APPEAL
NO HOUSE AVAILABLE OWNER ASKS POSSESSION PROBLEM OF WIFE AND FAMILY [by telegraph—OWN* correspondent] TE AROHA, Friday "Hero is a man with eight children who asks the Court what is going to become of them if ho is turned out of his house,", said Mr. W. H. Freeman, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court to-day, when informed by defendant in a case for the recovery of £B4 rent and the possession of a house, that it was impossible for him to get a house in the town owing to the acute shortage.' Defendant asked the Court what would happen to his wifo and family. Counsel said the fact that defendant owned eight cows prevented him from obtaining relief. The Magistrate: On the one hand wo have a section of the community crying out for population and, on the other hand, they have no houses for them. Counsel for plaintiff said that the owner of the house was himself only a working man, and there was a mortgage of £'sso on the house. It was a definite hardship to him while the tenant remained. Tho Magistrate: But what will happen if they go out in the street? After further deliberation the magistrate said he would consult with a colleague in Hamilton before giving a reply. The case was adjourned for a month.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23175, 22 October 1938, Page 15
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