Increased Valuations In Cheviot And Waipara

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30225, 2 September 1963, Page 14

Increased Valuations In Cheviot And Waipara

New valuations for the Cheviot and Wadpara counties have been issued by the Valuation Department in Christchurch.

The Cheviot county was last revised in September. 1958 The new capital value is £4.533.130, as against the former £3.893.710, and the new unimproved value is £2039.180. compared with £1.769.080. The value of improvements has risen from £2124.630 to £2,439,950 In the Waipara county, which was last revised in October, 1958, the capital value has risen from £8 435 950 to £9.228.180. the unimproved value from £4.205.490 to £4,067.540. and the value of improvements from £4.230.460 to £4.560 640 ‘•Notices have been sent to all owners and the rolls will be on inspection from September 2 to 23 at the county offices and at the Valuation Department in Christchurch Officers of the department will be available for interview at the county offices m Cheviot and Wai kart on September 12,” said Mr V R Aitken, branch manager of the department in Christchurch. Temuka Area ' Field work in Temuka is under way m the hrea west of the railway line, and very soon a start will be made on the eastern pert of the town TTie aim is to have the roll ready for issue in February next. "By the end of this month •11 inspections should be completed in the Waimate county, but the final processing will not allow the new figures to be Issued until Christmas,* he said.

Staff hoped to commence in the field in the Albury riding of the Mackenzie county in September and other ridings. Fairlie, Opuha, •nd Tekapo, would be visited in turn.

Although the new values for this county would not be issued until Late in 1964, the early start was necessary to allow sufficient time in the next 18 months to complete the much bigger Ashburton county.

Rangiora In the Rangiora counity, officers had completed inspections in the Cust area and were now working in the Rangiora riding. All properties in the Greenpark riding of the former Springs county had been inspected. and work was now going ahead in the Springston riding. This district was being revalued before the five-yearly cycle to bring values ioto line with those in the Ellesmere county, which was revalued in March this year Christchurch “Progress on Christchurch city is such that the new valuation figures should be ready for release at the end of 1964 or early in 1965 and thus available for council rating on April 1, 1965 To date 20.000 properties of the total of 50.000 have been inspected Inspections are now being carried out in the central city area. Spreydon. Linwood -Woolston. and ShirleySt. Albans," said Mr Aitken