INCREASED RATES.
CITY RATEPAYER'S VIEWS.
(To the Editor.)
Mount Eden is not the only district where rates are being "bumped up." I have two houses in the city area. In both cases the new valuation (which I am contesting) i s 99 per cent higher than before. True, the present council includes several members who are not even ratepayers (a lively state of things!) and true the rule of Labour usually results ill higher rates and taxes; but is not this clean against the spirit of the times, the allround reduction in interest rates, and so forth? It is absurd to say the rental value of a hou'a lias gone up, and gone up higher than in "boom" times. An empty house might at the moment be "rushed" and obtain a high rent during the present temporary shortage, hut in general a landlord is not getting as wood rents as he used to and lie has to pay unentployment tax on what lie does get. It appears that the City Council has restored its wage cuts at the expense of the ratepayer. The myth that a landlord is a kind of bloated ogre who needs blood-letting is apparently not yet exploded. HIT ALSO.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 37, 13 February 1937, Page 8
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