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`AUSTRALIA'S CHOICEST
BUTTER
UNREASONABLE
f
19
EVICTIONS BANNED
New Bill Passes All Stages In Council: Immediate Protection Of Low-Rate Tenants
Provision For
REVOCATION
RESOLUTION
Fair Rents Basis OF 36-YEAR-OLD
In Ordinance
GREAT LAKES DEVELOPMENT
Washington, To-day.
The United States has submitted to the Canadian Government a com- prehensive treaty for development The Hon. Mr. Sydney Caine (Fin-known as the St. Lawrence Basin, and use of the Great Lakes, to be
Council this afternoon:-
The United States agrees to build
An ordinance to prevent unreasonable eviction of ancial Secretary) moved the fol-
tenants and to make provision as to the rent lowing resolution in Legislative Treaty. and recovery of premises in certain cases, was It is hereby resolved that the re- and finance a hydro-electric dam passed through all its stages in Legislative solution of this Council adopted on on the International Rapids sec- Council this afternoon, and became law.
the 2nd August, 1902, requiring|tion of the St. Lawrence River, that pensions paid in England from while Canada, financed by the the Widows and Orphans' Pensions United States, will build a 27-foot
The measure is limited to a duration of 12 months, Fund be paid at the rate of 3/- to canal, round the Rapids through
and one of the most important provisions is to the dollar shall not apply
1° not apply to any
any which ocean-going vessels may stay immediately all proceedings for eviction pension granted on or after the 1st reach the heart of both countries.-- against tenants paying less than $20 monthly it is required, said Mr. in rent.
June, 1988,
Reuter.
Caine,
of
a
be
of
because, by a resolution
of pensions now granted to persons this Council adopted in 1902,
fixed living in England are calculated on Its effect on other tenancies is to overrule existing rate of exchange of 3/- to the dollar sterling salaries there is no reason
was prescribed for pensions paid in why any pensions which may law, to restrict the landlord's right to posses- England from the Widows and Or-granted hereafter on the basis sion. The Court will decide each case on its phans' Pensions Fund and this rate dollar salaries should-be-artificially merits and upon the "fair and reasonable rent”
is obviously no longer appropriate increased by payment at a rate of
exchange of more than twice to present conditions.
current rate. in cases where a rent increase is the point of
DOLLAR SALARIES ONLY If this resolution is adopted all dispute.
The special rate applies of course such pensions granted in future will only to pensions calculated on dol be paid at the current rate of the lar salaries but while the majority day.
Reference committees will be appointed by H.E. the Governor to assist the Court in establishing points of fact regarding the condition of pre- mises and the rents of adjoining premises, in order that a "fair rent" may be arrived at.
The objects and reasons ap-subject of inquiry by a Commis- pended to the Ordinance stated:sion appointed on 9th March,
The influx of refugees from 1938, and since the report of that Canton as a result of recent air Commission a careful watch has raids there has, despite adminis- been kept upon the situation. It trative measures to cope with and is now considered necessary to restrict it, so increased a popula- deal with that situation by the tion already swollen by immi-] means contained in this Bill. grants seeking safety from dis turbance in Ching that the hous-
The text of the Bill follows:-
ing accommodation of the Colony This Ordinance may be cited as is no longer sufficient to contain the Prevention of Eviction Ordinance,
the numbers of
to occupy it und who desire!
many
cases willing to pay exorbitant prices for doing so.
NOW NECESSARY
1988.
2.-(1) In this Ordinance-
(a) - 'flandlord", and "tenant" includo any person from time to time deriving title under the original landlord tenant; azken
(b) “landlord's also includes in rela- tion to any dwelling-house any person, other than the tenant, who is or would but for this Ordinance be entitled to possession of the dwelling hquae; \\(c) <“let” includes sub-lat;
The object of this Bill, which is based on sections 12 and 15 of the Rent, etc. Restrictions Act, 1923 (18 and 14 Geð. 5), repro-
"tenant" and "tenancy" include duced in clauses 3 and 4 of the substanant and sub-tenancy?e Bill, is, by restricting the land (e) tenant' includes the widow of lord's right to possession in cor- a tenant dying intestate who was To- with him at the time of his tain cases, to prevent hardship death, or, where a tenant dying inter- to tenants now in occupation, tato leaves no widow, or in a woman, The housing problem and pre- such member of the timant's family sa valent charges for rent were the (Continued on Page 84),
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