UNIMPROVED VALUES
EATING POLL IN COOK COUNTY.
As the result of a poll in the Cook County, Hawkes Bay, on Thursday last, the 9th instant, the ratepayers determined in favour of rating on unimproved values by a majority of 446, the voting being 726 for and 280 against the proposed change. Cook County comprises an area of 840 square miles, and its population includes 1670 ratepayers, who pay £52,492 annually in rates. The new system will come into operation in April next.
Rating on unimproved values ha 3 now been adopted in 53 out of the total of 122 counties in New Zealand. Several have adopted the system automatically by reason of the fact that they came into existence by "hiving off" counties wherein the ratepayers had already adopted the system. There have been polls in 49 counties, of which only three have been unsuccessful. Of the 118 boroughs in this country, 73 have adopted the system, whence it would appear that the time is not far distant when all the local bodies will have declared for the complete exemption of improvements from local taxation.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 65, 14 September 1926, Page 8
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185UNIMPROVED VALUES Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 65, 14 September 1926, Page 8
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