ASSESSMENT COURT.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXIV, Issue 4981, 3 June 1903, Page 2

ASSESSMENT COURT.

CITY OF WELLINGTON PROPERTIES Tho Assessment Court for the city of Wellington resumed its sitting at the .Magistrate’s Court yesterday nlteniOJii. Dr A. McArthur, S.M., pressed. The assessors were Messrs F. llradey and D. T'. Stuart.

Mr Boli appeared for the Valuation Department. 11. C. Renner objected to tho valuation on his section, 31ft by Unit 4in, in Hawker street.’ Tiro unimproved value is £279, and improvements £3OO. The objector submitted that tiro property was below tho level of the street, and was not worth more than £7 por foot. The valuation was ' James Lockio section 198£t by 165 ft, in Majoribauks street; unimproved value £2772, improvements £2ooo.—Valuation sustained.

John McLean, section 45ft b-y. 150i't, in Austin street; niiimjrroved.yalub £540, improvements £450. —V ahi at fort cjntlji i lied. _ ' 'VO. Asher, two sections in IJluoo street, 33ft by 92ft K— (vnUmtious £330 and (.*400); 40ft by 127 ft sia (£4BO and £350). —Valuations susuiined.

W. H. Attack, section in Pifio street, 50ft by 132 ft; unimproved value £6OO, improvements £ooo.—Tho objector submitted that the valuation of £l2 'a foot was not based upon tho intrinsic value of the land, but upon tho present land boom which was now in full force in Wellington, and which caused people to give prices for land entirely of.it of proportion to its real worth. Hc ponitod out that tho value of Uis ); J;j.ucl,.luid depreciated since last valijUjijpJwjiyai, made, and said his scctioifl VWr.aß?Hfh sixteen feet above tho street,. which, was ono of tho steepest in Wellington. Ho then compared tiro valuation of his property with tho valuation of sections in Adelaide, but Ins Worship said he could not allow that Question to. be opened up. In answer to Mr Bell® the objector said sections of land opposite to his property had sold at £l3 a foot. Those sections were easily approached.-- _ Tho Court reduced the valuation to.£11" a foot, making tho unimprovedßvalue £550. .tnid yniiioj; ■ John P. Bourke, section 4Sfi t b!v, / 134ft, in Sussex square; uniniprdVodwwallie £570, improvements £2OO. — : Tho*'area was amended to 37ft by 134 ft,, and tho unimproved value to £444. George Prince, section 34it 7in by 100 ft 3in, in Owen street; unimproved value £242. improvements £2OO. —Valuation eus'-oihed.

George E. Prince, two sections in Constable street, 21ft by 100 ft each; unimproved values £l6B, and improvements £250 (fadi.'—Validation sustained/ Tim valuation on a third section 35ft by 100 ft,‘ of £2BO and £3OO, tained. ■ ,-ui i -mysv/ojl The. same objector, 80ft. in 'Emmett street; uiiinfproyed, value £238. improvements £2OO. —Unimproved value amended by consent to £2Ol. Tho unimproved value of £252 on another section 3ff ft by 80ft, was also reduced by consont to £2IG. Tho same objector, section 120 ft by 100 ft, and 12ft by 165 ft, inll-intoul street; unimproved value £468, improvements £350. —Unimp.oved v.,lue amended to £4OB.

Alexander Wilson,, sections in Constable street, 32ft by 122 ft 6in (valuations £320 and £400); 32fb by j32ft 2in (£320 and £10); .tnree sections, 33fjif,by 122 ft 3in each, and a fout-h, 33ib)-hy 114 ft; unimproved value £33(5 "cachb — Valuations sustained. ‘ ■

The same objector, section in Daniel street, 34ft by 100 ft; unimp. oved value £233, and three other sections 32ft by 100 ft each; unimproved value £224 each.—Valuations sustained. The same objector, seven sections, -32ft'by 122 ft each, in Wilson street; total unimproved value £l7-10, total improvements £9o6.—Valuations sustained. ' . _• , Robert A. Wright, four sections, 17ft by.Boft each, in Emmett street; unimproved value of £ll9 of each allotment was reduced to £lO2 by consent. Two sections, 23ft by 80ft; unimproved value of’£l6l of each section was reduced to £l3B by consent. A seventh section, 22ft by 80ft; unimproved vaiuo .of £154 was reduced by consent to £132. , H. F. Christie, section 132 ft byi33oft, in Stanley ' street; unimproved value £396.- —Valuation sustained. Abraham Mudge, section _ 46ft-by 160 ft, in Adelaide road; unimproved value £345, improvements £125. Amended to 46ft by 135 f- valuations £322 aud £125.

Same objector, section 8-lfb by IGOft ; unimproved value £630, improvements £4oo.—Amended to 84ft by 13oft; valuations £6OB and £3OO.

John McLean, section 167 ft by 264fi, in Hanson street ; unimproved value £1670, improvements £9so.—Unimproved value amended to £1503. Philip Wills, section 101 ft by 132 ft, in Hansen street; unimproved value £707, improvements £350. —Amended, to '99ft by 132 ft; valuations £693 and £350. '

Same : objector, another scetiohV'BSft by OSft; valuations £413 ah’d ? ‘£35C, amended to £332 and £350. _,A third section, 82ft by OSft; valuations £4lO and £SOO, amended to £328 and £SOO. A fourth section, 103 ft by -190 ft; valuations £1155 and £2OOO, amended to £825 and £2OOO.

James Brown, section 210 ft lOin by 9oft Din, in Wallace street; unimproved value £I3OO. improvements £soo.—Unimproved value amended to £1192. At this stage the Court adjourned until 2.15 on Thursday afternoon.