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NZ Truth, Issue 112, 10 August 1907, Page 8

A factor m the question of high rents m Wellington that does not receive due prominence is the soiled dove of the community. She has got to live * somewhere, and the smug landlord charges her double rent m consideration of the fact that he is endangering his immortal soul by letting her remain on the ' premises. The awful tenements m such thoroughfares as Hatoing, North, and Jessie streets bring m fat rents to the respectable property owners, and values surrounding are influenced. A man who is looking for a house was shown a- two-room od cottage m Frederick-Street, a thoroughfare that is not particularly sinful, but it is at the back of Hainuig-stroet, and the. values re-act on adjoining thoroughfares. The structure is 'dirty and dilapidated, with a broken back, door, and is not fit for human habitation, yet the landlord has the castiron cheek to ask 12/6 a week for it. It is m the hands of a firm of agents who will not disclose the name vl the owner,* who is probably sone godly person. The house-hunter, who paid Ss -a weak m Christclmrch for four years for the use of a four-roomed cottage, is naturally, indignant and i amazed*