HOUSE RE-LET BY OWNER
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Previous Tenant Was Evicted I £10 FINE INFLICTED
(By Telegraph-
WELLIN GTON, Last Night. A prosecution under the Fair Bents Act, 1936, was made in the Magistrate 's CouTt to-day against Leon W. Wilkens, ownOr of a dwelling-house at Arawa road, Wellington. The charge was that, having obtained possession by representing that he required .the house for his own occupation, he re-let it within six months without having obtained an authorising order from a Magistrate. Defendant, who plOaded guilty through ignorance of the law, was fined £10. The Magistrate said defendant had obtained possession by a false representation. It was clear that he had no intention of going into the house. The case waS; therefore, a grave one under the Act, which was designed to protect persons in occupation of houses. There was a specific provision with respeet to the obtaining of orders by false pretences. If possession was obtained on one of the grounds mentioned in fiection 13, and the ground was false, or if the house was re-let within six months after the landlord had obtained possession, he was liable to a fine of £50. The case was not merely a technical breach, but one whare the statement was inade fraudulently.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 53, 18 March 1937, Page 15
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