Unusual Jersey Law
An unusual custom in Jersey, Channel Islands, which says that hew arrivals must have character references from the Mayors of the towns in which they resided in the previous three years before they are able to purchase houses, was brought to the notice of the Mayor of Auckland, Mr Allum, in a letter from an Englishman who returned to the United Kingdom in 1945 after a stay in Auckland. “The law, an old French one, is, as you can understand, a difficult one today,” the correspondent writes. He adds that he must have been in a great many towns and cities in the last 16 years and cannot recall meeting any Mayors. He discovered the law when, by purchasing a business in Jersey, he was unable to secure a house.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 40, 21 October 1946, Page 4
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133Unusual Jersey Law Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 40, 21 October 1946, Page 4
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