INCREASE IN HOUSE RENTS
ARBITRATION COURT EVIDENCE WELLINGTON RENTS A DISGRACE. Press Association. WELLINGTON, March 26. During tho hearing of the drivers dispute in tho Arbitration Court today considerable evidence was called to support tho demand for increased wages ask for by the Union. Mr Eggars, a land agent, who controls the. renting of 300 houses, called by the Union, read a statement, showing in detail how the rents of various houses occuupied by laborers had risen during the last 18 months. The increases amounted from 3s to 5s per week. Witness said rents were likely to further increase owing to the operation of the new city bylaws, which, ho said, are more stringent than the old ones. People came to witness frequently and offered him 2s more than the existing tenants paid if he would turn them out Workers were obliged to sublet and take in boarders. He was sorry to admit he had known of four families in one house. Tho thing was a perfect disgrace.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2150, 27 March 1908, Page 2
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