FAIR RENTS ACT
OWNER OF HOUSE PROSECUTED SOLD WITHOUT MAGISTRATE'S ORDER [Per United Press Association.] CHRISTCHURCH, September 18. “This is the first prosecution of its kind which has come before me,” said Mr Reid, S.M., when the Labour Department prosecuted Arthur Leslie Choate for a breach of the Fair Rents Act by obtaining possession of a house from his tenant on the representation that ho needed it for himself and selling it within six months without a Magistrate’s order. The prosecutor said the tenant, Patrick J. Maggin, had vacated the house on receipt of a written notice from Choate, who occupied the premises for only seven weeks and then sold the house. _ ' i Counsel for the defence said Choate decided to sell owing to the cost of carrying out repairs to the premises. Maggin was comfortably settled in another place. The Magistrate, in imposing a, fine of £l, said he was not impressed by the way in which Maggin had brought the breach to the notice of the Labour Department.
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Evening Star, Issue 23684, 18 September 1940, Page 6
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170FAIR RENTS ACT Evening Star, Issue 23684, 18 September 1940, Page 6
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