RATING SYSTEMS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22256, 8 May 1934, Page 8

RATING SYSTEMS

TO THE EDITOR. S IE —Youl- correspondent “Unimproved Every Time,” who writes in your issue of April 23 advocating a change in the rating system evidently knows the importance of not discouraging citizens from spending money to improve their proPC More than half of the counties and boroughs in New Zealand are now workiric under the new system, and I hope that Dunedin will obtain the necessary 15 per cent, of ratepayers’ signatures to enable them to demand a poll on this all-irnportant question. I have lived in Wellington for a number of years, and have seen this city changed out of recognition for the better through the adoption of a sensible system of rating. To show what is happening in Dunedin, if a man sets out to paint the city red he is fined by the court once, but if ne stayed at home and painted his house the City Council would fine him every year. Wellington citizens are working like bees improving their properties, and, incidentally, the appearance of the city, content in the knowledge that their rates will not be increased. „ When money is left in the .Post Office the Government might use it lor any purpose anywhere, and is willing to pay interest on it, but as things are at present vour Citv Council penalises the person who'spends his money in Dunedin.—l am, e t e „ Old DUxVedinite. Wellington, May 3.