Raising the Rent

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 136, 30 August 1927, Page 8

Raising the Rent

RESTRICTIVE LEGISLATION POWERS OF MAGISTRATE (THE SUN’S Parliamentary Reporter.] WELLINGTON, Monday. With the session so far advance! and with so much work ahead tha Government is hardly likely to seel the reintroduction of the Rent He striction Bill, which was effectively vetoed by the Legislative Council recently at the second reading stage, and which virtually ceased to exist at the beginning of August. The suggestion has been made that in the face of specific notice having been given, certain tenants at tfci; end of the Island, intimating a rise ia rent, endeavours would he made ti the Minister of Labour, the Hon. (I J. Anderson, to persuade the Council again to consider the measure. It » believed that certain Labour menbers wish to have the measure con! tinued, and have approached the Minister with the request to try again be: fore the session finishes. Rent-restriction legislation is net entirely off the Statute Book yet, hot ever, sections 3 and 4 of the 1926 At! now being operative with the reje tion of the Continuance Bill. The« sections provide that the rent-restric tion legislation, the basis of which h the War Legislation Amendment Act 191 G, will cease to apply in any dwell ing house unless a stipendiary magi* trate, on the application of the ter ant, makes an order continuing tin application of the restrictive legislation to that particular house. In a® case where such order is made the landlord will be entitled to receive i net return of seven per cent, of the present capital value of the dwefllßAll orders so made will expire w January 1 next, and unless this year’ Bill is reintroduced and passed 1 1 rent-restriction legislation will be i thing of the past with the New Yea: