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The Rent and Mortgage Interest Restriction Acts,
1920 and 1923.
A number of communications has been received
from tenants who were dissatisfied with the condition
of the houses in their occupation. The houses were
inspected, and, as the tenants wished to secure the execu
tion of certain repairs and not merely to obtain certificates
under the Acts, schedules of the work required to
put the premises into a reasonable state of repair were
sent to the owners of the property. In each case the
needful works were carried out.
It not infrequently happens that a tenant is under
the impression that he is entitled to call upon the owner
to carry out extensive redecoration of his house, and,
on the other hand, an owner is sometimes unwilling to
carry out repairs reasonably required. In dealing with
such cases the department has endeavoured to be absolutely
fair and impartial, and it is satisfactory to state
that during 1925 in no case did it become necessary for a
tenant to make a formal application for a certificate under
the Rent Acts.
Public Health (Meat) Regulations, 1924.
Inspection of Meat and Other Food.
An ideal system of meat inspection requires that the
Inspector shall be present at the time of slaughter when
the carcase and all the organs are available for examination.
Such a system of inspection is feasible in a wellconducted
public abattoir, but in a district in which
there exists a number of private slaughter-houses
scattered in various parts of the area it would be
extremely difficult to arrange for inspectors to be present
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