RESIDENTS UNHAPPY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19126, 22 September 1936, Page 12

RESIDENTS UNHAPPY

NO RENT PAID FOR 20 YEARS OWNER -UNKNOWN ‘ • LONDON, Aug. 6. No. 5, Lena gardens, Hammersmith, W. , . . A 10-roomed house with fairsized garden front and back.. All in good condition and occupied by a number of brothers and sisters—most of them with good jobs. ■ They are unhappy because the landlord* has not called to collect the rent for 20 years! They are not sure about his name or where he lived. All they know is that they are living in a house worth about £BOO, and that the rent —£4 4s a month -r-has not been collected since 1916 . . . £IOOO. ‘ • “The position is this,” said -Mr. Thomas Arthur John Edmunds. “My father, who took the house on lease, has just died. I am his eldest son. The estate is- being cleared up. ' ■'We know the house is riot ours, but we cannot find any papers that would show vho or where the owner is. “I do not remember much about him, as I was only a child then. His name was something like ‘Galperin." It might ho spelt ‘Guelperine,’ or ‘Geulphenne,’ I have a vague idea that lie frijjghfc have been a Pole; I don’t- remember where I got that. from. • “F6r all We know he may have been killed ip ihe war,” said Mr. Edmunds ‘-That seems the most reasonable- solutiOri.” ’ - No.' 10 Hyde Park place midget house With ‘a four-foot frontage, reputed to be London’s- -smallest, was let six months ago. One year’s advance rent was paid, but no tenant has put in an appearance.