TRICKY TRICKETT.

NZ Truth, Issue 103, 8 June 1907, Page 6

TRICKY TRICKETT.

A Sharp Estate Agent. /

"v 'Tfcje ' 'qjues Ho-ri is ■ -alTvays U©ii^- ask-e-d how on eartiv -half the. land-- andhouse agents m Wellington and other pi-aces, earn a livelihood, and it is sometimes answered when one or more of ihe impecunious mob K'^t into the drimipal Court dock. There is a -house aiwP estate agent m Wellington of the name of Trickett, and it looks to -"Truth" as if Trickett is iC veiry- tricky awl. perky person, whom lio-usD-so2k«e-rs 'had better fisjh't shy of unless they want to be badly fceatea. Aliout a month a-So a iiard-Vvorking Izbam-ing man entered into treaty for the re-ntins o-f • a house somew-he'.e m South Road, and paid down 17s as a week's rent m advance. The house was no-t suitable -because it w-as damp, and on iliat ground t-h-o man dad not., propose to live m it, and rightly or wrongly he demanded his seventeen Lob tack, but he did not get it.' However, strange to relate, the tricky person Trickett. let the house %o a-nioUJifar" i individual, and got the 17s down from him, which as a simple raster oh ar-i-l-hme/td'c, moans that tricky Trickett pot 3 -4s instea-d of IT'S, and no doubt tbat meant a very foi : £ cemmi'ssion for him, if not actually "fctince." The first-mention-ed would-Jte -tetnant got to hear of this, and demanded his 17s back, but was told 'by Trickett to S\ummon for it. Perhaps Tricky Trickett can trive some explanation. At all evenis he seems to be a very sharp person, and one whom the intending tenant ought to ffive a wide berth.