Unemployed Tenants.
To the Editor. Dear Sir, —No anxiety known to the tnv employed fathers and mothers is quite so grim and grinding as the fear of being shelterless. People who own more houses than they can live in can often now not get their rent. If such rent is their livelihood, they should join the unemployed, surrendering their title piecemeal as an equivalent for relief. Instead of following some such course, there are those who, in a petty and most objectionable way, take it out of their tenants. I know of a case not far from New Brighton, where a very pious landlady, in trying to get rid of a family with children, cut off the light, removed the bath, cut off the water supply from a well and only left the cheap water flowing when she was at church, evidently with a wary eye on heavenly opinion. These little creeks of bitter spite are feeding a swelling tide of honest indignation.—l am, etc^ THOU SHALT NOT
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 296, 14 December 1931, Page 6
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