DERATING FARMLANDS.
EFFECT ON TOWN DISTRICTS. TUAKAU, Wednesday. "If the farmers maintain the attitude that the users of the roads should pay, and derating follows, it will simply mean the farmers will pay no rates and will have the use of Tuakau town district roads," declared the town board chairman, Mr. A. H. Tapper, addressing a meeting of ratepayers. ' "We bear the whole of the traffic from the northern Raglan electorate, and it would be a very inequitable basis if the people who use that road (George Street) did not pay. The farmer who uses the road will have to pay for it in carting charges." The chairman said if farming lands in town districts were to be derated, the other sections of the community would have to bear the burden.. In town districts, farm lands were practically alongside the railway. On the last valuation, agricultural lands at Tuakau were reduced by 30 per cent to 50 per cent, and business premises and residential holdings increased by corresponding amounts. Farmers at Tuakau had had partial derating as it was.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 115, 18 May 1933, Page 14
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179DERATING FARMLANDS. Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 115, 18 May 1933, Page 14
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