AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CARLE ASSOCIATION. FAIR RENTS BILL. (Received this day at 9.25 a.m.) SYDNEY, July 19. One of the clauses in the Fair Rents Bill, which is now before Parliament, provides that no one shall refuse to let a bouse to any respectable and responsible person because the applicant lias a child or children, under a penalty not exceeding £SO. Bonuses for the securing of a tenancy or the payment for furniture or any other article in order to secure a tenancy is
also forbidden. Anyone advertising or instructing an agent that a house is not to he let to anyone with children is also liable. The Bill was reintroduced in the Assembly at the stage that was reached at the conclusion of last session. A lively <lebate was opened but it was nipped in the hud by the application of the closure.
PLAGUE AT THURSDAY ISLAND THURSDAY ISLAND, July 18.
The steamer Arafura has a lmhonii plague patient, lie is a Malayan qnnr-tor-master. It is of a mild type. Strict quarantine is being enforced.
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Hokitika Guardian, 19 July 1924, Page 3
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