CORRESPONDENCE.

Taranaki Daily News, 5 March 1920, Page 6

CORRESPONDENCE.

EVICTIONS. To tho Editor. * Sir,—Can you inform mo if eviction from a house through inability to secure another is legal? If so, then we have history repeating itself in that we are reverting back to the days of the evictions in Ireland and Scotland. A friend of mine, a steady, hard-workine man, with a wife and four children, the youngest but a few weeks old, received notice some timo at'o to vacate tho house occupied by him, and I know for a fact that he, with tho assistance of a few friends, have dlllgetrtly been searching for another, but so far without success. Ho has, so far as 'I am aware, always paid lib rent till recently, when the agents refused to accept It. Tho house in question Is owned by a Lady who has lately sold other properties and lias been trying to sell this one, but Ins not done so so far. Now she suddenly finds she wants It to live In herself. I am given to understand that an eviction order has been signed, so that now this man is expecting at any moment to have his furniture put out In Uio street. I must say that any ballllf who would turn a family (with very ynune baby) out, whether legal or otherwise, umler these circumstances. Is lacking in that fel-low-feeling which should exist between man and man, and he Is only a tool In the hands of others. If this sort of thing Is allowed to take place then the public of New Plymouth should call an- indignation meeting and In some way ,try to remedy this state of avarice on the one side and hardship on the other.— I am, etc., PRO BONO. New Plymouth, March 3.