A MUNICIPAL QUANDARY.
WHAT IS A "COMMON LODGINGS HOUSE"?. . • (By Telegraph.—Special Christchurch, January 6. ■ Inquiries made from the Christchurch" " City Council officials, with regard to tlie conditions existing here in connection with tie registration and control of' boardinghouses show that under the by-laws the council has' supervision of what are termed "common lodginghouses," which are required to bo registered ; but so vague is the description', and so difficult under the existing by-laws is it for the council to exercisa supervision, that it is practically, a dead-letter. Only one registration waa made last year. An inspection is noT in course •of being made of all the lodging-houses, but the difficulty it that the council have no means of ascertaining what houses come under * the definition. They have no right of entering, and the owners of the majority of the boardinghouses refuse to register as "common boardinghouses." The remedy seems to be to pass a by-law compelling all houses taking-in lodgers over a certain minimum to register. ' They would then como under the direct supervision of the council.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1019, 7 January 1911, Page 4
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176A MUNICIPAL QUANDARY. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1019, 7 January 1911, Page 4
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