CHEVIOT COUNTY.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20827, 10 April 1933, Page 14

CHEVIOT COUNTY.

REVISED VALUATIONS. CONSIDERABLE REDUCTIONS. The revision of valuations in the Cheviot county has been completed by the Government Valuation Department. The previous assessments were made in 1919, and compared with these the new valuations show decreases ranging from 32 per cdnt down to 7 per cent, in the capital valuations, and from 37 per cent, down to 16 per cent, in the unimproved valuations. Property owners who object to the new valuations are given until May 1 to lodge objections. The following is a comparison of the rateable capital and unimproved valuations in 1919 and the revised figures:— Hawkswood Riding. Capital. Unimproved. £ £ 1919 .. 372,320 291,505 1933 .. 254,710 192,070 Approx. decrease p.c. 31 34 Parnassus Riding. 1919 .. 209,066 171,826 1933 .. 148,525 108,705 Approx. decrease p.c. 29 36 Kaiwara Riding. 1919 .. 255,793 233,913 1933 .. 173,555 146,540 Approx. decrease p.c. 32 37 Waiau Riding. 1919 .. 253,320 210,559 1933 .. 205,940 162,090 Approx. decreace p.c. 18 22 Lowry Riding. 1919 .. 238,585 181,855 1933 .. 221,245 151,355 Approx. decrease p.c 7 16 Hurunui Riding. 1919 .. 211,424 178,409 1933 .. 191,645 145,420 Approx. decrease p.c 9 18 Seaward Riding. 1932 .. 310,764 251,735 1933 .. 260,445 192,020 Approx. decrease p.c. 16 M As part 6f the Stonyhurst Riding of the Waipara county was transferred to the Seaward riding of the Cheviot rounty in 1931, the 1919 figures cannot w used for comparison. »