NOWHERE TO GO

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26471, 27 May 1947, Page 4

NOWHERE TO GO

“ SQUATTERS ” TO QUIT WARRANT FOR POSSESSION Dunedin’s “squatter” families were still living at 35 Falkland street yesterday afternoon —the final day of a week’s grace granted by the attorney for the owner of the house after a court order had been made for possession on May 20. Besides desperate efforts by the two families themselves to find a place in which to live, other attempts have been made on their behalf. The attorney for the owner has made inquiries, while the 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force Association and a local member of Parliament have also offered their assistance. The owner’s attorney, Mr M. V. Lousley, said yesterday that the present occupants would have to leave the house, or else the court warrant for possession would be acted upon today. The house was visited by a Daily Times reporter, to whom one of the two married women living there said that no other place had been founp, and they would have to stay in the house for the night. Her husband and their son-in-law had been everywhere in the hope of finding living quarters, but without any success. They were even prepared to move into one empty house, which was in a very bad state of repair, but the owners were not willing to make it available.