“GET MARRIED OR GET OUT!”

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17836, 3 May 1926, Page 12

“GET MARRIED OR GET OUT!”

BACHELORS PUT OUT OF LONDON FLATS. (Special to the “ Star.”) LONDON March 20. Mr Samuel Wallrock, the president of the Incorporated Society of Auctioneers, is gleefully and relentlessly turning West End bachelors out of suites and chambers in which they have been snugly ensconced for many years so that married people may have the accommodation. ‘ Eighteen of the fortyfive suites in II are wood House, Hanover Square, were occupied by l bachelors when I bought the place, and all have got to go!” he told a "Daily Mail” reporter. "I must,” he added, "have turned out 300 bachelors from various blocks of flats which I have acquired in Park Lane, St James’s Street, Ryder Street, and Pall Mall. "Many bachelors arc selfish men and occupy rooms which could accommodate a family of 5 or 6 people. My motto is ‘One man —one room! ’ I believe in marriage. I am the happiest married man in the world. "When I buy a block of fiats I give the bachelors the choice ‘Go out—or get married! ’ I have driven some of them to marriage, too, and I have known an ousted bachelor come back o the nme block cf flats ;ith his wife.”