CITY AND SUBURBAN RATES

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 116, 18 May 1944, Page 3

CITY AND SUBURBAN RATES

Mr. Appleton has denied that he had said he would increase suburban rates said Mr. J. Roberts, the Labour candidate for the Mayoralty, speaking last night at Roseneath, but his address to the New Zealand Institute of Valuers made it clear that his opponent favoured rating on the capital value, said Mr. Roberts. When the capital value rating system had been superseded by the unimproved value system, largely through Labour's efforts, suburban rates had dropped substantially. Past councils had since had two new valuations and suburban rates had increased. Mr. Appleton's address emphasised that more rates would have to come from , suburban properties. That meant another valuation. Replying to a question, Mr. Roberts said Labour would not increase rates unless property owners sought better services. That would not be opposed. The trouble at present was that the seryices given in return for the rates levied were inadequate. Labour advocated that all sewerage and water services from the mains to the house should be laid by men employed by the City Council. Drainage from the house to the mains was a very costly business to the individual owner, but it would not be costly to the City Council, which, would have a properlyMuippedstaf^^loo^^ftei^fli^job.