FAIR RENTS CASE
OWNER SELLS HOUSE LABOUR DEPARTMENT ACTS COMMENT BY MAGISTRATE (Bv TPlotrrsnh.—Prf»«s Association) CHRISTCHURCH, Wednesday “This is the first prosecution of its kind which has come before me,” said the magistrate, Mr F. F. Reid, when the Labour Department prosecuted Arthur Leslie Choate for a breach of the Fair Rents Act by obtaining possession of his house from his tenant on the representation that he needed it for himself, and then selling it within six months without a magistrate’s order. The prosecutor said that the tenant, Patrick J. Maggin, had vacated the house on receipt of written notice from Choate, who occupied the premises for only seven weeks, then selling the house. Counsel for defendant said Choate had decided to sell owing to the cost of needed repairs. Maggin was comfortably settled in another place. The magistrate imposed a fine of £1 and said he was not impressed by the way in which Maggin had brought the breach to the notice of the Labour Department.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21221, 18 September 1940, Page 6
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167FAIR RENTS CASE Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21221, 18 September 1940, Page 6
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