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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1774, 7 March 1906, Page 50

Mr G. F. C. Campbell, Valuer-Gene-ral, speaking to a deputation of farmers at Geraldine, in regard; to excessive valuations, said there were 300,000 separate properties in the colony to be valued, and if the department had to appoint two valuers and an arbitrator to go over each property it would be Doomsday before they got a single disaiiofc valued. He dealt with the suggestion that only local men knew how to value property in their own district. Why was it that he had received letters from different parts of the North Island from members of the farming community asking that no valueis should remain in one district beyond a certain period, and that all valueis should be transferred from district to district, so that they might be absolutely independent ?—“ Oamaru Mail. The Pahiatua Chamber of Commerce has passed a resolution urging the Government to proceed with the Rimutaka railway deviation.