THE HOUSING PROBLEM

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 9, Issue 499, 23 January 1920, Page 2

THE HOUSING PROBLEM

"Have you any children?" inquired the landlord of a woman who was seeking tenancy of his house (reports the Hawera Star). Snappily the woman replied: "I don't see what that has to do with you," and then, in a rather mournful tone, "but if you particularly want to know, 1 have four—in the cemetery." The deal was at once concluded. Then the woman retrieved her four children from the cemetery where she had lefte them to read about the virtues of dead landlords pending the result of her negotiations with a live one. The distressed man consulted his solicitor, but was not given much hope of getting an order of ejection, and the woman, it is understood, defended her finesse, holding that everything is fair in love and war—and in house hunting nowadays.