SIDELIGHTS ON SUB-LETTING

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 17, 15 October 1920, Page 4

SIDELIGHTS ON SUB-LETTING

Tliero is apparently something more than hardship involved -iu some of the tenement cases that come. be ore the Wellington Magistrates, although up to the present tlwt lias been the basis of argument of solicitors for. the ejectment of tenants. In the Magistrates Court yesterday a case was mentioned m which Ship" was the central ft thcro were complications that jwll tax the ingenuity of the profession to solve. The lessee of an apartment house and a cottage close by wished to have an order of ejectment made against a. subtenant of' the cottage. The cottagei was lot nt 2As. per weelc, and was sub-let at 30s per week to ft third party. .The original sub-tenant was. at. considerable inconvenience to the plainhif. «]eo Sd from the cottage and-let it to he defendant at 255. per week. At the end of a week the rental was reduced to 215., ond after R time the defendant reduced the rental by adopting the Simof paying just 20s. and no Lore. .Thus tho plaintiff received .£1 week and paid that sum away as rent while the defendant had the use of the fens stove in the cottage The. plaintiff sought to have the sub-tenant Stated in order that possession of the vacant' cottage might be given to the „ MM w lio were unwilling to take it SnC vacant. The had paid into Court the balance of the oS eible that the Court will .be asked to decide whether the tenant is entitled to a refund of 55., from the owners or tha agents of the owners, and whether tho first sub-tenant should have a refund 15s. per week. ■