FLAT DWELLERS
ENCOURAGED IN SYDNEY. So intense lias competition become between owners of flats in Sydney, that many are now holding out special inducements and novel services to attract tenants. Darlinghurst and Elizabeth Bay, the centre of the flat life in Sydney, has been chosen by several landlords lor the offensive.
The owner of one flat building advertises a free movie show for tenants, and he has arranged 'for all the latest silent and talking pictures to be shown in the apartment theatre regularly. Only tenants of the flats and their invited friends are allowed into the theatre, which is equipped with a miniature Wurlitzer organ and spacious lounge. At another block of flats in the same area, the owners offer tenants the services of a housemaid, and have also installed a special nursery for children, which is attended daily by a doctor and staffed hv a kindergarten school teacher and a baby welfare nurse. At another establishment a fleet of limousine cars is placed at the disposal of tenants. Shopping expeditions and holiday camps and tours are planned S v the owner. For tenants who own their own cars, free garage and mechanical service are given.
Another service offered to tenants of another block of flats in this area is a free removal .service. The owner offers to supply a pantechnicon and furniture movers to prospective tenants, and will furnish tTie apartments in any desired colours o /vie favoured by the incoming occupier",
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Hokitika Guardian, 26 November 1929, Page 7
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244FLAT DWELLERS Hokitika Guardian, 26 November 1929, Page 7
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