RATING ON UNIMPROVED VALUE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXVII, Issue 10736, 29 August 1913, Page 4

RATING ON UNIMPROVED VALUE.

Per Press Association.

Dunedin, August 38.

Sir Joshua Williams has given judgment in the case John Sonlter v. the Mosgiel Borough Council, which was brought for the purpose of settling the question of making and levying water rates on the unimproved value. In the course of his judgment, His Honour said, ‘‘l think the Legislature, by the Act of 1911, has expressly enacted that water rates, which were theretofore leviable on capital or annual value, shall thereafter not be so levied, but shall be leviable on the unimproved value. The difficulty is that the draughtsman, so far as lean see, has unfortunately omitted to provide the necessary machinery for enabling u rate to be levied in accordance with the enactment, and there is no other way of levying it. It is beyond the power of this Court to provide machinery. That rests only with the Legislature. The plaintiff is entitled to an injunction