LAND VALUATIONS.
ALTERATION: OF FIGURES DENIED.; { [BT telegraph.—own correspondent,] . Weixtntjton', Friday. , This morning a Post reporter brought •under the notice of Mr. G. F. C. Campbell, the Valuer-General, the statement : made by Mr. '.". Bell :' at; th { Farmers'.,; Union meeting in Auckland yesterday, as to the alteration of a certain Government ? land valuer's figures after they i .were sent to : Wellington. Mr.' Campbell gave Mr. Bell's charge a flat contradiction. 1 {Trie figures of a valuerwere, he said, never altered in Wellington. A valuer was an expert, and the! Department considered he was . the , best judge as to the {-value of a property in his own : district. ■>,'■'•■.'. "{•;■
{; The : Valuer-General added that ho was writing to the Farmers' Union in Auckland, asking to be furnished ■ with more specific information in connection. with Mr. - Bell's charge. , . '"■ "■;: ,{ : ... ■-," ; .■.„,., ~ .•,{.;-'
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13491, 18 May 1907, Page 6
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133LAND VALUATIONS. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13491, 18 May 1907, Page 6
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