To the Editor of the "Norrn-Cuina Dairy News."
Sm,—I have read the case of profiteering in house rent given prominence in your issue of to-day, in which the Jandiord is under. stood to be a Chinese. I can assure you that Chinese landlords enjoy no monopoly of the practice. There jara to-day foreign property-owners who have been raising, and are raising, house rents by very substantial figures on an average once every two weeks, where tenants are not protected by a lease. I know of the case of a foreign widowed lady who within recent months has been subjected to two increases of rent im rapid success sion, in the short space of six months, directly the lease expired and is'now called upon to pay a cool 50 per cent, increase right off the bat, representing a total increase of virtually 100 per cent. on the original rent which was effect only six months ago. This is typical of many other cases.
The question that naturally arises is this: Are the landlords going
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