FLAT DWELLERS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 290, 6 December 1929, Page 2

FLAT DWELLERS

ENCOURAGED IN SYDNEY SYDNEY, Nov. 15. So intense has competition become between owners of flats in Sydney that many are now holding out special inducements and novel services to attract tenants. Darlinghurst and Elizabeth Bay, the centre of the flat life in Sydney, has been chosen by several landlords for the offensive. The owner of one flat building advertises a free movie show for tenants, and he has arranged for all the latest silent and talking pictures to be shown in the apartment theatre regularly. Only tenants of the flats and their invited friends are allowed into the theatre, which is equipped with a miniature Wurlitzer organ and spacious lounge. At another block of flats in the same area, the owners offer tenants the services of a housemaid, and have also installed a special nursery for children, which is attended daily by a docflor and staged by a kindergarten school teacher and a baby welfare nurse. At another establishment a fleet of limousine cars is placed at the disposal of tenants. Shopping expeditions and holiday camps and tours are planned by the owner. For tenants who own their own cars, free garage and mechanical service are given.

Another service offered to tenants of another block of flats in this area is a free removal service. The owner offers to supply a pantechnicon and furniture movers to prospective tenants, and will furnish the apartments in any desired colours or style favoured by the incoming occupiers.