COBDEN NOTES

Greymouth Evening Star, 11 August 1930, Page 7

COBDEN NOTES

(our own correspondent.] The revaluation of the Cobden Town District has resulted in an increase of ,037,000 in the capital value, and a decrease of £404 in the unimproved value. The review of valuations (previous valuations were made in 1321) has created surprise. It was expected that the unimproved value of the district would have been increased lather than decreased. In round numbers the figures are: —Unimproved value £31,000, and with capital value added £138,000. In Greymouth (population GJ.OOI the. capital valued increased ’by .1231,053, or £6.311 ’ess than the £27,000 increase in capital value of Cobden (population 1200). If Brunner. Runa.ngu, and the Grey County revaluations show an increase, in the capital value, as a set-off against Cobden’s abnormal increase, the Hospital levy on the Town District will not be materially affected. The recent Poultry Show has given a. iilip to fanciers and utility breeders. Preparations are now under way for the hatching season. last year’s success with day-old chicks encouraging further enterprise. Th* clearing of blackberries by the School Committee in and outside of the school grounds has improved the surroundings, and removed here and there a, menace to trallic, caused by rank growths obscuring vision. Whitebaiters are pleased that no hard regulations were enacted to restrict fishing by imposition of a license fee. Every year the extra, shillings frequently earned by catching and selling whitebait have helped many families. Next month the election of a new Town Board, Hospital Board representative, and member of the Grey Power Board, will take place. A review of the past two years shows the efforts made to locate water by boring, which proved fruitless; the enacting of a by-law prohibiting offensive trades, on a petition, by neighbours; the grading of roads by the County grader, which improved the highway, and the use of line gravel, and road formation by a. competent workman. Cobden is progresing, but it is not increasing its population at the same rate as the mining townships. For this reason some residents feel that the undertaking of water and drainage schemes should be deferred until the population has grown sufficiently to warrant special loans for the' purpose.