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No rights – G. A. Zink, Tailor

If you were a small business and a tenant on a short term lease, you had little chance of receiving compensation. Gustav Adolf Zink was a tailor based at 108 Oxford Street. He claimed £150 compensation “for disturbance of business, having been established in this property for seven years and seven years almost adjoining”. His status was as “a tenant as long as I choose to stay”. But it was not accepted by the Council because Zink could not furnish any evidence in support of his claim to be a tenant at will.(CRS63/CN945) Zink proclaimed the unfairness of the matter for the entire world to see. He was (in his own words painted on the awning): “The Right Man on the Wrong Side”. But he was obviously attached to Oxford Street and the trade it brought him. He moved into new premises at 56 Oxford Street after the road was widened and the business is still there today.

(image: City of Sydney Archives, CRS 51/2971)