RATE COLLECTION.
This letter is not an appeal against the rates as such, but against the system of rating. Mount Eden is, I understand, one of the few boroughs in New Zealand where rate 3 are levied on the rental value, which the writer knows—as do many others—is a most unfair method. A fresh valuation will ere long be in progress, hence this appeal to ratepayers to have the method of rating changed to the unimproved value system. Mount Albert has this method, and fluctuations in the rates are much less than in Mount Eden. At present rents are admittedly good. A slump is just as certain to follow." On the unimproved value system this does not strike so much hardship as under the present method of rating. Are there any other ratepayers of the same mind as the writer who will take this matter up and have the system changed ere a new valuation comes along? Will the Ratepayers , Association consider the matter? RATEPAYERS.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 89, 17 April 1939, Page 6
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165RATE COLLECTION. Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 89, 17 April 1939, Page 6
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