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are to provide Tenancy Tribunals with factual information when- ever an application is made by a landlord for exclusion from control or by a tenant for the reduction of rent. During 1961 the bureaux forwarded to the tribunals 4,977 sketch plans with measurements and particulars. In connexion with exemption cases the staff of the bureaux interviewed 20,149 tenants personally. As a direct result of their contact with landlords, principal tenants and sub-tenants, the officers of these bureaux find themselves mediating in a large number of minor but varied tenancy disputes. This service has been of great value, for the parties are usually reluctant to go to court, and still more reluctant to testify in public against their closest neighbours!' The staff of the bureaux handled 795 of these cases during 1961.
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