LAND VALUATIONS.
COMPLAINTS BY FARMERS. PRESS ASSOCIATION. TIMARU, May 25. A meeting of farmers in the Geraldine district was held yesterday afternoon at the conclusion of tho weekly etocic sale to protest against the present system of valuing land, and it was unanimously decided to form a Taxpayers' Protection League. A complaint was made that tho valuations in the Geraldine district were too high, and that the Assessment Court was wrongly constituted, and tho abolition of the Court wa-s advocated, tho valuing to bo don© by one man appointed by the Government and another by the Road Board or County Council, an umpire to be called in in tho event of a. disagreement; the decision then arrived at to be final. The speakers also contended that the valuers should personally inspect ©very farm and leave with the farmer a note of the valuation made, and so prevent valuations being raised later on, as they complained was often done now. A strong committee was formed, and representations are to bo made to the Government.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 5598, 26 May 1905, Page 3
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173LAND VALUATIONS. New Zealand Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 5598, 26 May 1905, Page 3
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