BOARD OF REVIEWERS.

Auckland Star, Volume XX, Issue 145, 20 June 1889, Page 5

BOARD OF REVIEWERS.

CITY NORTH.

The following objections to valuations were heard before Messrs S. Y. Collins, J. Newman, and F. R. Claude, the reviewers, after we went to press yesterday. Messrs T. F. Cheeseman and G. Fraser appeared in,j support of their assessments.

W. H. Haslett, property in Victoria-; street, £680. The assessors offered are-; duction of £180, which Mr Haslett refused, saying he bought tho property some time ago for £270, and if it was not reduced to £400 he would compel the Government to take it over. Mr Fraser said the value was | a fair one. Valuation at £500 sustained, j Mr Haslett said he would let the Government take the property at the price. • Samuel Jagger, Alexandra Hotel, £3,200, Mr Cheesernan said he would reduce the value to £2,900. Mr Duke asked for a further reduction. The Bench decided to value it at £2,900. Samuel Jagger, Hobson, Hotel, £2,500. Mr Cheeseman agreed to a reduction of £250, which Mr Duke accepted. Samuel Jaggor, property corner of Victoria and Hardinge streets, £2,750. The assessor offered to reduce this amount by £250, but Mr Duke wanted more. Mr Duke said that anyone could buy the property for £1,700. A reduction was made to £2,400.

Jagger and Morrin, tenant's interest in j the Marine Chambers, Queen-street Wharf,! £1,500. Mr Duke objected to the assess- i ment, and asked that the amount be struck ' out altogether, as it had no value, and left; a net loss to the lessee. Reduced to £500. Henry Keesing, property in Hobson- j street, £1,000. Mr Keesing objected to the assessment. Reduced to £550. j Mary Ann Robertson, property in Hob- • son-street, £900. Mr Keesing appeared on behalf of the owner, and applied for a reduction. Reduced to £700. James Kelly, interest as lessee in a property in Freeman's Bay, £500. Mr Kelly ; said he had no interest in the property, hia I lease having expired eighteen months ago. : The valuation was etruek out. i L. D. Nathan applied fora reduction in? s the assessment on his two properties. Reduced from £2,800 to £2,000, and £1,400 to £1,000. James LarHn, property in Duke and: Hardinge streets, £1,300. Mr Tole appeared , for the objector, and asked for a reduction ' to £850. Reduced to £900. Mr Tolo also objected to the assessment on the property in Wyndham-street,£9so. Reducedto£74o. '■ Also to the assessment of £600 on property I in Graham -street. The Commissioner offered a reduction to £500, which the Reviewers sustained.

John Marshall, assessed at £3,775, for the buildings occupied by Mennie and Dey. Mr S. Hesketh appeared on behalf of the objector and stated that the lessees 5 interest was not valued at all, and the whole value was put on the freeholder. Messrs Mennie and Dey were the lessees and had erected buildings costing about £2,000, and they had aSO years' lease. Reduced to £2,640. He also objected to £1,000, on the Albertstreet property. Reduced to £900. The assessment of x'4oo on the Swanson - streeb property was reduce^ to £300. He also objected to £530 put on the property in Moore and Albert streets. Reduced to £400. Objection was also made against £4,000 on two properties in Queenstreet ; it was for the owner's interest in a leaso of 990 years for the three properties between the Waitemafca Hotel and Owen, and Graham's. Reduced to £3,500.

The Court then adjourned,