"Naturally I expected that !■ would be able to get possession of the house when I bought it—the land agent said that I would have no difficulty in getting possession—otherwise I would never have bought it, for I was to get. married within a few weeks and wanted a home. Certainly I cannot go on paying oft' the purchase money and paying rent at the same time," said a plnintiiT in a tenement case at the Wellington Magistrate-* Court. A Post reporter who made inquiries from several solicitors was told that this was by no means an isolated case, for time and time again purchasers had obtained houses through agents and had discovered, too late, that though they owned a house thev could not occupy jt.
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Taranaki Daily News, 21 February 1920, Page 9
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125Page 9 Advertisements Column 2 Taranaki Daily News, 21 February 1920, Page 9
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