RANGITAIKI SWAMP
EVIDENCE BEFORE COMMISSION.----(BI TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION ) . AUCKLAND, This Day. lha Eangitaiki Drainage Commission sat to-day. Archer.Essex Hawkens,• who had been farming for twenty years on the swamp was prepared to carry on now that the drainage had progressed so far. In his opinion the land should pay rates, but many settlers were financially unable to pay at present. The capital cost of the drainage scheme should be definitely determined. _ Mr Meredith: "Did the Government Boavcf?" B bettei" than 'the Draina Se .Witness: "Yes they spent all their time fighting each other ' Ernest Alfred Meredith, District Valuer at Botorua, said that it was largely guesswork in arriving at the unimproved value. -The- unimproved valua ° i ani W _«'e Kangit^iki drainage area y^r^a h, TOS £61S '000' a- decrease of £70,085, or 11 per cent., since the previous valuation of 1919.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 130, 5 June 1925, Page 8
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RANGITAIKI SWAMP
Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 130, 5 June 1925, Page 8
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