COLD RECEPTION.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 244, 15 October 1929, Page 9

COLD RECEPTION.

URBAN FARM LANDS BILL.

POSTPONEMENT URGED.

LOCAL BODIES' OPINION

(By TeJegraph.—Press Association.)

WELLINGTON, this day.

The progress of the Urban Farm Lands Rating Bill is likely to be slow when it reaches the House, judging from the varied opinions voiced before the Local Bills Committee when the evidence of delegates from various local bodies controlling boroughs in different parts of New Zealand was taken to-day. The majority asked for the postponement of the bill for twelve months, and none of them appeared to favour it in its present ,form. The Minister, the Hon. C. A. de la Perrelle, said he thought most authorities would agree that small farmers surrounded by bqroughs must get some relief. Borough councils .were not so one-sided as not to see that. He hoped the bill would not be shelved, but that a measure would be put on the Statute Book giving some relief from the more burdensome rates. My.-D, G. Sullivan, M.P. (Avon), suggested that steps should be taken so that special valuations could be made in regard to the areas it was proposed to benefit.