LAND VALUATION.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 223, 18 September 1915, Page 11

LAND VALUATION.

l\ il II 1-1)1 'Ml IN NKW ZKAI. \.N D. I Mi I. W. l-'hinai in. '".'« Zoaiar T \a.uei 1,.1ie,a1. ...... .- I.i-t :.'.i in M 1 e.y . -~„ke lilt -I ny .. I . ;, ' Il .1,.. Ti ."/laph" lepoitei ~; ihe .- oik ol hi.l ,1.-pailii,eu:. \,".v Zealand i- ihe only -in:. ..! tno \u-' iii "a-.mii _i oij. v In. , ha. an ogaln-.-.i d-pal tment solely f.l •:. , ,i.ii ;..,,m ,'l a- ert.ii.i'.-.g tin vaiuc >f t„■ Sew south Wale* lioiernmeiit in re>;„.. • ~, the \ aln.'i m Hill no., be !,. I'a in li. lit. an I .i. iie ~f the .1.- ---. I-1011 ..' Ihe I.c It I'M' lll.'l-' I Ollfe, , :,..- that ci ■ , ..( 1 ~* Males should . .-..!. i-, i, Hue, i bail I \ ablation. M: I :..n .-an ha ,1 boiii.-I hing I . .-„ v N.a Zea'llld's ->-;,",.. Ihe \ aiualioii lleparlmoiit." sn, I Mi KUi.ag.ui "nn- 1 n in exi-teii.e foi 17 ,cii . and it cm truthfully be said that it- ....... ■- li.it .* 1.e.-n attained » ith , on |„ir,l'lteil il tle fi lotion. <lf cour.e. . .:,:.- ,n ... ".iiacie- and mistake- have ... ,in cd. .in I will occur ajt-111. Hilt the-e ..,'. ,ne. it. oi any system of valiln . .ii. 1.t.-n now they ale very foa in ■iTi'S.'l i,n I they w'.ll drnini- . from ..•in t.. \.ni. We hate an auloniatn -t«tem lit which parlioulni of all -.a'.eI . i hin I aie furnished hy tiie Laud, lit.-!-! Ilep.ii tinent an.! by all ( ioveriimeut d" . ' p:n tin,'ills. Tn'*,' vi c -out :,, the diI trie; vnlii.-rs. nh.i nn- rp. t uiro.l lo n»cer . tain, in thcii on n district-. ',:.,■ term-on whioh the hill I- hate been dl*p .s.'d of i| The ta'uers have also to asceitain w he I ther incensed pile, ale due to -pee,,!,, , tion or otherwise, and whether a do. line lin price is due to pritate conditions or .ilo a L'enera! de 'line of the b, .llity. It I will thus be -ecu tin,: the data and in | ferences on whiis'i I he miner's e.-liuiafe ; i- based .'.in be uiideistoo.l and critieisel ,' hi ant,oie p..s-i-s-,"l of ctumonsoiiso and 'j local know )e,l({e. -s,. c.nerally sati-fa, l t.,i\ ha- boon the result thai tiie Lcgisla ' t luiin- the last t.'.ree or four tears ' ha- mole than once made protisi,,,, f„ r ; lh.- ii.h.piion ~f the t ilitationi „f the 1i \ aluatioii I lopartmoiit for ceitain Hoy ' i "">" • purposes, and ha- ,-peci.iily pro 'j ti led thai tho-,. \.iln.-.t i .lis are not to •: he *übjeol to appeal, hut to be tin il and '! conclii.-ne Phere has been no hostile crite i-n, ..f i!ie inelu-ion of those clause* inliie l.iiml Laws Aiiiendment Art. lUl_. I foi the put *...-.• of HxillS lie selrin'j price ol Inn,la sold by the i row n. and 'I also for the levi-ion of rental- of Crown • 1e.,-es in a similar Ad passed in lull). 'i "Ho.|iiests are constantly made to the 1 depuitinent to furnish special va'unti.UH in . inne.-tion wilh pritate transactions. I!e,|iie*t* inne also boon made hy -inkini; fund commissioners mid hy- municipal I co ,„,,!- for taiualions for mortjjajre pi.rposes w-hen lending out money. The ; valuation ..f hind by n (lot eminent do ' part,,nrnt has undoubtedly -toadied the land niiuket. and prevented false spoon I lathe tallies being put upon lands. •j Thereby it ha* prevented land boom- ! and ihe disastrous renolioiis rosiiltiiig , I from the,,,. At i.-'st landowners kcvc , inclined 1,, allege thai the valuers would , return 0.v.-easivo valued, n- because the , State would have to ilclive revenue on . the basis of those valitnlions, and therefore the valuers would lie subjeot to I pressure in the direetinn of i,i,.h values, it was soon found, hotveve,. that there , was nothing in this contriition. The sole aim of the department ihiwt be . directed to nsoertniniiig jus- values. . That is a strong reason for ,i.-,lug the values for more than one ptirp...,,•. to o-,.t I values which shall he just for all pur- • pruses. Kor these reasons also it j s importnnl that the valuatio" department should he separate from and independent of every other ilppm I ment of the State. The secret or mt'.lie oonfidenoe in the Xew Zealan.l \sluation Department lies in its ce'.ijiiote independence."