A UNIQUE COMPLAINT.
NO RATES TO PAY.
[BY telegraph.—OW.V. CORRESPONDENT.
New Plymouth, Monday. At the Clifton County Council meeting at Waiter a on Friday was a rarity in the shape of a settler who complained because he was not allowed to pay rates 011 his property. This settler, a European, was married to a Maori woman, who owned property, and as native land it escaped taxation. With her consent, he said, he had approached the Valuation Department, the Public Trustee, and other officials to have the property entered on the valuation roll, but although the Government official in New Plymouth had at length promised to have the request attended to, nothing had been done. He was anxious, lie said, to put an end to the practice of some people who twitted him with using the roads and paying nothing for their upkeep.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14004, 9 March 1909, Page 5
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142A UNIQUE COMPLAINT. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14004, 9 March 1909, Page 5
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