ALLEGED EXCESSIVE VALUATION.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 72, 25 March 1922, Page 11

ALLEGED EXCESSIVE VALUATION.

m PROTEST OF PROPERTY owners. REPLY FROM PREMIER. With reference to tl.e recent protest made at a meeting of property owners against the alleged excessive A : alu<_i assigned to properties in the City of Auckland and the inadequate time alloAA-ed for the receipt of objections, a reply was received from the Prime Minister this morning by Mr. H. C. TeAAsley. secretary of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce. The Premier said that the procedure relating to general revisions of values was prescribed by tl.e Valuation of Land Act, and regulations thereunder provided, inter alia, that objectors had the right to appeal to the Assess-! merit Court. The invariable practise of the Valuation Department Avaa to con-| eider the objections carefully and jrivo • objecters the time anil opportunity to J interview the valuers with the view to obviating, if possible, recourse to the' Assessment Court. The time allowed for receiving objections to values covered the same period as that allowed in the! cases of Wellington and Cliristehurch, re-1 valued recently, where the number of assessments; exceede.i those in Auckland; by more than one hundred per cent. ]

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