NEW HOUSING ACT
, CLAIMS FOR INCREASED RENTS. (Feb United Pbess Association.) WELLINGTON, February 1,6. The first cases under the new' Housing Act, allowing a landlord 7 per cent, on the value of his premises, came before Mr Hunt, S.M., ;yesterday, when the owner of several houses asked that her tenants’ rents be raised. Counsel for tenants extended that no repairs had been made; but plaintiff asserted that there had been expenditure on repairs entitling her to the increased rentals. In one case the defendant had occupied a house for 24 years, and the premises were still without gas or electric light. The rent for this was fixed at the rate now paid. Decision in the other cases was deferred pending the magistrate’s personal examination of the houses.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18172, 17 February 1921, Page 5
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