URBAN FARM LANDS
RATING RELIEF BILL.
UNFAVOURABLE PROPOSALS. VIEWS OF LOCAL BODIES. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON. Oct. 15. The progress of the Urban Farm Lands; Rating Bill i;s likely to be a slow cup when it reaches the House of Representatives judging from the many aspects of opinion voiced before the Local Bills Committee when the evidence of delegates from various local bodies controlling boroughs in different parts of New Zealand was taken today. The majority asked for a- postponement of the Bill and its further 'consideration for 12 months, and none, of them appeared to favour it in its present form. The. Minister of Inter-: na! Affairs, the Hon. P. A. de hi Porreilile, thought that most authorities would agree that isma-11 fanners surrounded by boroughs must get .some relief. Borough councils were mo-t .so one-sided as not to see that. He hoped the Bill Avould not be shelved, but that tlie measure Avould be- put oil the. Statute Book, giving some relief from the more burdensome rates.
Air D. Sullivan (Avon) suggested that, isteips shoyld be taken so that special valuations c.ouild be- made in regard to the areas it was proposed to benefit.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 15 October 1929, Page 9
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196URBAN FARM LANDS Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 15 October 1929, Page 9
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