INCREASED RENTS.
MINISTER ANSWERS CRITICS. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, June 28. Reference is made by the AttorneyGeneral (lion. H. G. It. Mason) in a statement, to complaints made about the action of the State Advances Corporation in raising house rents. “It is reported that in the Hutt Valley rents on some houses have advanced by from 2s Gel to 8s 6d a week,” Air Mason said. “The FailRents Act, passed last session, applied to the Government just as fully as to kny private individual. There is no desire on the part of the State Advances Corporation to secure a general increase of rents. In many cases, however, where the incomes of tenants had been seriously reduced during the depression, the Corporation had accepted very greatly reduced rents in order to assist them. Where, however, the circumstances of tenants had improved sufficiently to enable them to pay a fair rent, the Corporation had written suggesting that the rent should revert to a fair basis.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 178, 29 June 1937, Page 6
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