MR KYLE’S SPEECH

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22507, 15 September 1938, Page 9

MR KYLE’S SPEECH

TO THE EDITOR OF fHI PRESS. Sir.—At this late date, may I add to the facts given by your correspondent, “This Is Labour,” as he states: “The landlord is being robbed and his money and properly are ceded to another section of the community, owing to such • laws as the Fair Rents Act, which prevents the landlord from obtaining a return in any way comparable to that of other investments.

This kind of legalised piracy has been in existence for years, and is further sanctioned by the Labour Government, to the elimination of private enterprise, making an increase of dishonourable tenants.

I can produce evidence of two landlords now awaiting eviction decisions who have lost rent, with expenses, which have altogether reached £66. Thus the Labour Government assists supporters monetarily and tax free. If, as I believe, this sum would not foot the weekly amount filched from landlords, small wonder the Government is popular in kind.

My father, who supported a large family, built his house 32 years ago with a 60 per cent, mortgage, superior to the Government dwellings of today. Seven years ago he bought g smaller house, and let our first home, but, instead of gaining 10s a week, he is hundreds of pounds to the bad, owing to the adding of further unjust legislation. The result is that the mortgagees are closing on both properties. Therefore. my father, after providing adequately for his own, has been forced to provide free housing for the Government choice, while we. his children, behold our reverenced home devastated to slum- level, not to mention the legacy we had a right to expect: and forthwith the mortgagee wins the ashes. .. . A number of old folk have been pauperised in this way, and thereby the Government has created an acute house shortage.—Yours, etc., WATT NEXED. September 13, 1938.

[Subject to the right of reply of J. A. McCullough, this correspondence is now closed.—Ed., “The Press.”]