THE HOUSING ACT.
APPLICATION TO RAISE RENTS. WELLINGTON, this day. The first cases under the new Housing Act, allowing a landlord seven per cent, on the value of premises, came before tho magistrate, Mr. Hunt, yesterday. when the owner of several houses asked that the tenants' rent be raised. The tenants' counsel contended that no repairs had been made, but-plaintiff contended that there had been expenditure on repairs, which entitled her to increased rentals. In one case defendant had occupied the house for 25 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 ctfscs was deferred, pending the magistrate's personal examination of the houses.—Press Assn.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15447, 16 February 1921, Page 3
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