POLITICAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 51, 14 October 1911, Page 6

POLITICAL.

NOTES BY THE WAY

Mr. Jennings yesterday asked for information regal ding tlio special sitting of the/ Racing Commission that tlie Prime Minister had saiti would deal Avith the country clubs’ petitions. The Prime Minister replied that ho preferred the question should be asked by notice in the ordinary Avay. 1 ins would enable him to communicate with the former chairman of the commission. Unfortunately, when t* l ® chairman had come to Wellington ho (the Minister)' had been laid aside with sickness. He would answer the qaedthiii later.' ’ • ; -'lnc'-Rating Amendment Act, mtroduccd by, Flip Hon. I>. Biiddq, proposes ini por Unit aiterations in the rating of librougbs aiid cities, etc. Under the provisions of the principal Act tho system. ot rating, dn the unimprovel value docs not.gpP.ljV.t9 water, gas, electric light, sowar, and licspital and ohant,ai)le aid rates, The new proposals are to alter this, substituting tne following ;• -‘Where 011 the taking of a poll in any district the system of Fating on the unimproved value is adopted, the system snail apply' 1 to Avater rates, gas rates, electric light rates, sewage rates, and hospital and charitable aid rates, as well ‘as to other rates leviable under the principal Act.” In any district whore tho system of rating on the unimproved value is in force, a poll may Iso taken on the proposal that tils system shall apply to the rates above specified.