RATING ON UNIMPROVED VALUE.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13750, 12 September 1908, Page 7

RATING ON UNIMPROVED VALUE.

(To the Editor.) Sir. You published some statistics on "the above a short time since, s.ueh as the number of places that have adopted h, also kow long, jsmce, and the names of the ones that have gone back. If it is not too much trouble, will you be so kind as to supply a number of your readers with the required information, and oblige. — I am, etc., WAITARA.

[The Borough of Palmerston North adopted the system of rating on unimproved values tho poll being taken on March 5, 1897. Up to the end of March, 1907, 08 cities, boroughs, counties, and road districts had taken polls on the subject, sixteen rejecting the proposal. Hastings and Timarii have twice rejected it, while Petone and Picton carried at the second time of asking. Devonport, Hamilton, Normanby and North Invercargill, ha.ving adopted the system, rejected proposals to rescind it at subsequent polls, Of the cities Christchurch , and Wellington have the- system in force and Auckland rejected it. We have not at hand the record of polls sinco March 31, 1907. A point to be noted is that in most cases the voting on the proposals was small, tho majority of the ratepayers .failing to express an opinion either way. In Christchurch, for instance, only 1108 votes Avero recorded in 1902, .096 for and 512 against, out of oyer 3000 ratepayers, while in Wellington only 1852 out of over 0000 voted.]

Tenders are invited for grubbing fifty acres of gorse at Oakura.

Tenders are invited by Mr. Thomas H. Gillman, Hawera, for the erection of a residence at Kit ham. Tenders are invited by Messrs Sanderson and Griffiths for additions to business premises; also residence at Vogeltown.