TOTAL DERATING
REQUEST BY FARMERS MATTER FOR COMMISSION (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. A statement that derating would be one of the questions which would be referred to the commission which is to carry out an investigation into local body affairs was made by the Prime Minister, the Rt. lion. G. W. Forbe." in replying to a deputation of Auckland farmers which asked that total derating of rural lands should be undertaken. Mr. R. H. Feist, of Cambridge, asked, that a new system of rating more in line with modern traffic developments should be instituted. He maintained that there was almost sufficient at present collected from motor taxation to enable derating to be carried out. In the course of his reply, Mr. Forbes said he thought the time liad come for an overhaul of the local body system of rating and everything else.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18253, 23 November 1933, Page 11
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144TOTAL DERATING Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18253, 23 November 1933, Page 11
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