LAND AGENTS’ LICENCES

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 477, 5 October 1928, Page 13

LAND AGENTS’ LICENCES

REMITS AT CONFERENCE (Special to THE SUN) WANGANUI, Thursday. A remit from Nelson, that the Real Eitate Institute of New Zealand should ask the Government for protection against people who are not holders of land agents' licences acting as agents for the sale of property and the letting of houses, as this business was detrimental to legitimate land agents, was lost at the annual conference to-day. A motion was carried that the local institutes had it in their power to take necessary action. A Wanganui remit, that the Land Agents’ Act be amended to provide that every person shall be deemed to b« a land agent whose business is to act as an agent in respect of the leasing or letting of any premises, was carried. Conaiderable discussion arose over a remit from Canterbury that in any case a man has been refused a land agent’s licence mainly on grounds of malpractice, it shall be made illegal for any licensed land agent to employ him as a salesman. The words “unless with the consent of the magistrate *ho has refused the licence’* were added, and the remit in its amended form was carried. Another remit from Canterbury, that provision be made whereby in the •vent of any agent committing a misdemeanour which would be sufficient t 0 Justify a magistrate in refusing to renew his licence, it shall be competent for a magistrate on such misdemeanour being proved to cancel his ‘•Mice during the then-current year, instead of having to wait until March •*» carried.