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NZ Truth, Issue 142, 7 March 1908, Page 4

A new departure m athletics has been opened by Messrs Scott and Lane m Lambton-quay. It is called the Pastime Club: anil members are I asked to subscribe Is a week and have 1 the full privileges of the club. Boxing and wrestling are to be taught. The landlady of a seven-roomed apology for a buildjng m College-street (Wellington) deserves to be spoken of with contumely. The ramshackle was leased to a poor woman at 30s a week, and she. kept the rent nightmare at bay by letting rooms to loci--gers. As everything was m a terrific slate of" disrepair the mansion wasn't a very popular resort, and although promises had been made, to put the place m something like order nothing was done by the lady rentreceiver, who is m the beer biz., and could afford to put the gate on its hinges and fix up the sanitary conveniences and solder the leak m the bath, and remove the stagnant water from the passage, and provide new taps, and restore the falling ceiling, and a thousand other little things. The desperate tenant kept a month's rent m hand until such time as those promised repairs were executed, but the owner (or lessee) replied to this by putting the bailiffs m. This operation was a 'most expensive one, and although lodgers might overlook the little deficiencies . mentioned above, they can't stand living at a cosy home that is suffering from a severe attack of restraint ; so they left ■ and the rent collector will likewise be "left" very badly if she doesn't put the building m a state of repair.