VERMIN IN HOUSES.
MAGISTRATE SUGGESTS AMENDMENT OP THE LAW. (By TelegraDh— Press Association.) Auckland, April 11. . Giving reserved judgment in a claim for a week's rent in lieu of notice against a tenant who had pleaded that he was compelled to leave in consequence of vermin, Mi. Kettle, S.M., said that in law. there was an implied undertaking by a landlord in respect to an unfurnished house that suoh was free from vermin, but for some reason difficult to understand this was not so in the case of furnished houses. He suggested an amendment of the law so that in the absence of any agreement there should bo such an implied undertaking in respect of both furnished and unfurnished houses. Ho also recommended tenants to get such an undertaking in writing before entering into occupation. '
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 789, 12 April 1910, Page 5
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135VERMIN IN HOUSES. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 789, 12 April 1910, Page 5
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