POSSESSION OF HOUSE OBTAINED
PROSECUTION UNDER FAIR RENTS. ACT ' (United Pre-: Association) CHRISTCHURCH, September 18. “This is the first prosecution of its kind which has come before me,” said the Magistrate, Mr F. F. Reid, when the Labour Department prosecuted Arthur Leslie Choate for a breach of the Fair Rents Act by obtaining possession of a house from his tenant on the representation that he needed it for himself and selling it within six months without a Magistrate’s order. The prosecutor said that the tenant, Patrick J. Maggin, had vacated the house on receipt of a written notice from Choate, who occupijjjl the premises for only seven weeks, then selling the house. The defence counsel said that Choate bad decided to sell owing to the cost of needed repairs. Maggin was comfortably settled in another place. The Magistrate imposed a fine of £1 and said that he was not impressed by the way in which Maggin had brought the breach to the notice of the Labour Department.
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Southland Times, Issue 24235, 19 September 1940, Page 2
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167POSSESSION OF HOUSE OBTAINED Southland Times, Issue 24235, 19 September 1940, Page 2
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