The Hutt News Wednesday, August 15, 1945 THE RATING POLL

Hutt News, Volume 19, Issue 11, 15 August 1945, Page 5

The Hutt News Wednesday, August 15, 1945 THE RATING POLL

♦ ® On September the Bth next, Lower Hutt ratepayers will have an opportunity of deciding whether or no they will continue under the present system of rating on unimproved values. Between now and then no doubt, the protagonists of this or that publicly propound their Xriews and seek their convert. * Those who favour this system will • rush to point out the anomalies . inherent in that system, and vice versa, while yet others will condemn both this and that and advocate some other system as avoiding the anomalies of both v .System A and System B. All of which is good sound Democracy. fact remains, however, that rating anomalies will occur unuer any system. Lower Hutt to-day is certainly full of glaring ano- , molies due to the system now in vogue. Whether this system kKbuld be changed is a matter for •tie ratepayers to decide. In k Teaching their decision however, it is to be hoped' that ratepayers will have regard to matters other B than their own individual pockets At the moment. The broad, longterm view is the one to take toI 'in deciding this issue. This district has tremendous possibili--1" %es, ...As a result, its Civic admihistrators are cbtfrged .with I grave responsibilitiei. We fesl I that the eiforts of this or any I «ther Civic administration to adeI quately discharge those resp*nsiI fnlities **an only be "financially I hamstrung'' b> the retention of I g, system of rating which in Lower I Sbitt, has long outlived its I of usefulness. But, as said above, If it is for the ratepayers themselves I to decide.