REWARD OF PATRIOTISM

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 9869, 15 January 1918, Page 5

REWARD OF PATRIOTISM

SOLDIER’S FAMILY’S RENT RAISED. "NOT A BRITISH NAME NOR A BRITISH ACTION.” * At the sitting of the Third Wellington Military Service Board, at Parliament Buildings yesterday, Captain Baldwin (military representative) called attention, in the course of a Lower Hutt case, to the fact that the father of the appellant was away fighting ot the front. He had rented, at los a week, the house in which the family ■were living, but the rent had been raised to £1 a week. A witness stated that when the father first rented the house four years ago it was in a very dilapidated state, hut he and his son had greatly improved the place, and had worked so. hard in the garden that they had made it one of the prettiest places in the Hutt. The reward for that was that when the place was sold to a man named Meyer, in Auckland, iio had raised the rent by 5s a week. He understood, however, that Meyer was not aware that they had done so much for the property. Mr W.. S. Moorhouse (chairman of the board): "The father is away fighting for his country, and the rent is raised on his family from 15s to .£1 a week. That is the reward of his patriotism I Is Meyer a British*' citizen?” . Captain Baldwin: "It is not a British name.” The chairman; "It is not a British name nor a British action.”