GOVERNMENT LAND VALUATIONS.
FARMERS' COMPLAINTS. An up-country.. farmer complained to a Dominion representative tho other day of the present methods 'of Government valuation. It was a fact, be said, that there was trade depression, and land had certainly gone,/ down in price, - but still the ■ Government valuers were raising the rateable values. If they did not increase the capital valuo, they allowed in many instances an insufficient sum for improvements. Ho had built a residence at a cost of about £1500, aud he wished the valuer to allow him £1000 011 the building as a farm improvement, but tho valuer would not allow more than £400, and declared that the farmer had no right v to build such a fine residence on.a 400-or 500 acre farm. Another farmer complains that nothing is allowed as improvements for clearing bush lands, and said that even in a case where tho'area had been stumped at considerable cost, the valuer refused to recognise it as an improvement.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 293, 4 September 1908, Page 3
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