THE MERGING QUESTION.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 2857, 31 January 1916, Page 2

THE MERGING QUESTION.

The Government Valuer is in town, armed with the prices obtained for land a lew mouths ago when the Liverpool Kstate was sold, and he has already allowed it to bo known to those who hold land in the vicinity I hat their valuations will bo materially raised. The land in the area referred to, which may be described as north of Sherwill and Pharazyn streets, is almost -wholly used for funning purposes, but under the system of rating on unimproved values iv force in this town, it is rated at least three times as, high as land, of equal value in tho adjoining counties, though receiving no compensation in the way of light, water, sewerage, footpaths, or even' good roads, as other parts of the borough enjoy. That being so with the existing rate, the ratepayers interested arc naturally alarmed at an impending increase of tho impost. In view of the apparent inability of the Borough Council to give relief, these ratepayers "have commenced an agitation to have that part of the borough merged in tho Oroua County. An advertisement calling a meeting for the purpose will lie found in another column of ' today's issue.