RENTS IN AUSTRIA
PROPERTY OWNERS’ THREAT. AN ASTONISHING POSITION. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright VIENNA, October 1. An astonishing strike is threatened. The authorities refuse to allow property owners to raise their rents in proportion to the depreciation of currency, and thus a tenant who paid 1000 crowns before the War should now pay 1,900,000 crowns. The authorities admit that tne icnts are not economic, as it is impossible to repair the houses, but they consider the owners’ demands are extortionate. The owners say they will not light their houses, but will close them at 6 o’clock and will not pay taxes nr gas, water, and lighting bills. They will also remove telegraph poles, and even letter-boxes, from the houses.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18675, 3 October 1922, Page 5
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121RENTS IN AUSTRIA Otago Daily Times, Issue 18675, 3 October 1922, Page 5
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