FOUR YEARS’ EXILE
RENT-PROFITEER PUNISHED A Roman landlord named Pietro Neroni, who has been found guilty not only of attempting to evade a recent housing decree but also of speculating on the misery of poor families, from whom he extracted exorbitant rents, has been condemned to four years’ confinement in a small island off Sicily, where he will live under constant police surveillance. Neroni rented a plot of ground for £25 a year, then sublet it to various families, who lived in miserable insanitary huts, built upon it, for a total rental of £SOO.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 142, 6 September 1927, Page 13
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94FOUR YEARS’ EXILE Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 142, 6 September 1927, Page 13
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