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SALE OF HOUSE.

> FAIR RENTS ACT BREACH. • FINE. OF £1, IMPOSED. ,• CHKISTCHURCH,' Wednesday. : "Tliis is tlie first prosecution of its kind w.lileh has come before me," said Mr. Reid, S.JL, in the Magistrate's- < Court to-day when the Labour Depart-' 1 ment prosecuted Arthur Leslie Clioa-te for a breach of the Fair Rents Act by obtaining possession of a house from his 'tennnt on the representation that he needed it for himself, and selling it within ,six inonbhs ■without a magistrate's order. ■'■';■'■ "■ .'.";/' Tho preeecutor said the tenant, Patrick J. Maggin, had; vacated the house on. 'receipt of a written notice from Choate, who occupied the premises for only seven -weeks, tlien selling the house. Counsel for the defence eaid that Choate decided to sell owing to the cost of needed repairs. 3lnggin was comfortably settled in another place. ." ' Tlie magistrate imposed a fine of fl, and said''he was liot impressed by the way in which llaggin had brought -the breach to the! notice of. the Labour Department.—(Press Assni) ■

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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 223, 19 September 1940, Page 16

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SALE OF HOUSE. Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 223, 19 September 1940, Page 16

SALE OF HOUSE. Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 223, 19 September 1940, Page 16

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