LAND VALUATION.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20832, 26 September 1929, Page 6

LAND VALUATION.

IMPROVED SYSTEM AIMED AT. i, . (From odb Parliamentary Reporter.)’ * WELLINGTON, September 25. in an endeavour to arrive at an improved system of land valuation so as to make taxation fairer and more equitable a conference of officers of the Valuation department is to be arranged, according “ statement by the Minister of Lands -m lr Forbes) in the House to-night, ilie Minister said be recognised it was very important that there should be in even system of valuation, but at the same time he > recognised the difficulty of the highly improved land as against laud where improvements were not so high. It uas his intention to have held a conference during the recess, but he had been told by the, valuer-general that it would have meant the calling of all the officers of the department to Wellington, thus holding up all work in the meantime. The proposal, therefore, had not been pro* ceeded with. It was his intention to have a - c ®, er sP c ® some of the leading men 0 1. i G % a * ua tion Department to see whether they could arrive at a basis that would make taxation fairer and. more equitable than it appeared in the present system.