LANDLORD'S LOSS

Hokitika Guardian, 25 June 1932, Page 3

LANDLORD'S LOSS

WASHHOUSE CHOPPED DOWN. AUCKLAND, June 22. An Auckland landlord found that his tenants had chopped down his washhouse and used it for firewood. This is said to be an example of a form cf vandalism from which many property owners are suffering at the present time. The pilfering of electric light bulbs and fittings, the removal of lead pipes’} curijlailn rod's, /window blinds, door knobs, and gas stoves, and neglect to replace broken window-panes and cupboard doors are some of the ways n which unscrupulous tenants endeavouto cheat their landlords. What, for instance, can a. lardlord do when he finds that his tenant has disappeared with all the flowers, shrubs, and hedge plants in his garden? That happened at a house a month or two ago. The landlord angrily upbraided the tenant when he eventually located him. “Well, all I can say is the garden was intact when I left it,” reteurned the tenant. "It must have been the neighbours.” And that was as far as the landlord ever got. “The disappearance of electric: light bulbs is the most frequent? cause of annoyance and expense which landlords have to suffer,” said an Auckland land agent. "Oases are sometimes reported of houses being absolutely stripped of bulbs.”