STATE HOUSES.
SUB-LETTING DISCOURAGED. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Aug. 5. Sub-letting is to be discouraged in tenants of Government houses, ac : cording to a statement by the Undersecretary for Housing (Mr J. A. Lee), to-day. Mr Lee stated that the intention was to let each house so as to provide for the maximum occupation of rooms by the renter’s family. Referring to the possibility of an unemployed man securing one of the State houses, he said one could not he dogmatic about things like that. A man might he on sustenance, but the income of the family as a whole might be £7 a week. Who gets the houses would he determined on the combined basis of the need of the family for the house and its capacity as a whole to pay rent
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 211, 6 August 1937, Page 7
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134STATE HOUSES. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 211, 6 August 1937, Page 7
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