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LANDLORD FINED UNDER FAIR RENTS ACT. FIRST CASE IN NEW ZEALAND. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, September 11. The first prosecution of its kind in New Zealand since the Fair Rents .Act has operated was brought in the Magistrates' Court by the Labour Department when Arthur Overall, land agent, was charged that, being the landlord of a block of flats at Sandringham, he required or accepted a premium of £lO each in addition to rent in respect of two tenants. He pleaded guilty to both charges. A departmental inspector said that Overall had demanded the bonuses before he would let the flats. One tenant had to mortgage her machine to raise the money. Defendant counsel said that the Fair Rents Amendment Act, 1939, had reduced the rent of the flats from 30s to 22s 6d. Overall foolishly took a gratuity but gained nothing out of it. He had arranged with the Department to credit each tenant with £lO.
The Magistrate, Mr F. K. Hunt. Well, I am going to extract £lO from him. On each charge he will be fined £lO and costs. It was rather a brutal thing to do.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 September 1941, Page 7
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