ASSESSMENT COURT.

Thames Advertiser, Volume XXI, Issue 6365, 28 March 1889, Page 2

ASSESSMENT COURT.

i ; Before Mr, H.-.W. Norlhwofi, R.M. Bu.-iness was resumed before llio Court yefiterduy niornin?. L. Elnenfried, building in Davie" street, withdrawn. E. Ehrenfried, shop in Pollen street, leased to Mr Sawyer, £28 Mr Slyak apDearod for objector, and Mr Dean supported llio.valuation. After evidence was taken valuation wus roduced to £20,

E. Ehrenfried, al'otments 212, 213, Waio-Karaka road, £2 each. Mr Styak contended that tho properties belonged to Mrn Hogan. John Farrel gave evidence showing that Mrs Hogan was not the owner of the sections. Valuation wns bustaint d and 8s expenses weie allowed as costs to witness. L, Ehrenfried, allotments 150, 151, Cochri.no streot, £3 each valuation sustained . L; Ehronfried, allotments and buildin<> old Bay Viiiw-HotoVßoach Road. Valuation £25. Mr Slyak explained that £18 a year was all the rent received for the building. ;Mr Melhoso gave evidence for the information of the Court. Valuation was reduced to £20 t

L. Ehrenfried, allotmont and building ,64, Pollen street, reduced from L 7 to L 5. John Fogarty, Lady Bowen Hotel, Browu street, LIOO, In reply to Mr Deun, objector stated that hu made repaird. to tho building to the extent ot LlO, paid LI 10s rent. Tho house wan not free, but he wne not under any | particular restrictions to buy all his beer and spirits from Mr Ehrenfried. He did more business than nny of the two previous lonahts who had the Hotel as a free house, Dealing with Mr Ehrenfried made 1 littlo or no difference iu \m profits Ho paid the rates, but thoro woro no restrictions in his lease binding him to deal with Ehronfried. Mr Molhose ,in giving evidence, said, that if'the house were free it would fetch L 5 or L 6 rent por week. Both Mi Styak and Mr I'oprty objected to Mr Morose giving evidence bocauee he was agent for a rival brower. Valuation sustained. Valuation of the back premises loaJing into Davis streot was reduced from L4/to Iβ'on tho ground that they form part of the Hoiel buildings. Thomas Godkin, Whnii! Hotel, L9B, stated he paid LI per weoiuent, and he considered that amount sufficient valuation, Ho hold tho house as a weekly tenant from Mr Ehronfried, from whom it was understood he was to buy his beer and spirits. Tho situation of tho honso was good, but tho houses in the back streets did more business than the others, because men would not go openly to drink for foar of being seen by their creditors. Valuation' Biistainod. '<

Frances Qardaer, allotment and building Ll4. No appearance. Valuation 6ustdined.

D. Kouderson, ullo.mout Kurnka Uoad, Ll2. No appearance. Valuation sustained; '■;'■•■.-' ■

Dr' Callao.- residence- Mury street, reduced from LSO to L 45

B. Irvine, shop, Pollen stroet L3O. Mr Lush who appeared for ob]octor ox..;nincd Mr Dean at great length, uod gave evidence himself in the case and asked for u reduction of L 2 'The Court however sustained (he valuation.

James Je&ry, ehop in Brown stroet, £32 agreed to stand at £30.

A- transfer of allotment 117, Davis stroet, from Duvid to Samuel Loughlin was agreed to.

D.Lindsay nppoaroJ to sustain an objeclion on bohalf of Cathrine, his wiTo, to the valuation of f>lo oo a building adjauont to the Queen's Holol, Albert street. Mr Deao contended that the building was a part of the hotel, but Mr Lindsay stated that his wife leased the building from Mr Ehronfried, and held that thu valuation ought to bo reduced from £10 to £5, An objection was also held against the valuation of the' Queen's Hotel. Mr Lindsay stated tliat he paid £110s per woek rent. He did not pay £2 per week, nor did he spend £200 in repairs. The house was not entirely free and Mr Ehrenfiied paid for some of the improvements, Did not know the amount of rates paid, Valuation £90 was sustained.

Mr Mulligan, Cornwall Arms Hotel, £86, objector stated that up to 1887 ho paid £2 a week reut, but now dwine; to the bad times it waa reduoud to £1, he asked a reduction to £60. He dmied he would have to pay back rent if times improved, Ho was Mr Ehrenfried's lounnt, but there was nothing in the conditions'of'the , lease absolutely binding him to deal with Mr Ehrenfried exclusively, Hβ had been in the tra'ie for 27 years and had always got good; spirits from Mr Ehrenfried His rates amounted to about £10 and Mr Khrenfried paid for repairs. Valuation reduced to £74.

4 J, Fiolay, shop in Brown street, £!6. Agreed to stand at £14,

W. H. Pottsl Naval Hallund allotment, Boach road, L 33, reducsd to L 27.

James Reusbitw, allotment G44 transferred to Uiolmrd Cox ; 245 to Wui Bridges 81 allotment and building. Albert street, L 45, reduced by agreement to L4O, 585 allotment aud building, l Jaillie street £10, reduced by agroomont to L 7, ' Phyllis 15, Willing, Provincial Hotel and ullotiueur, Queen street, L6O. J; C. Williams deposed that tho property was pot worth morn than 10s per week. In fact tho business was not worth holding tho liconse for, ho was holding on for bolter timi'S.. Being near the Court House wos no advantage, there wore not many people brought about in consequence. Tlioro used to bo a few old l< bnosers " about, but they did not come to his house for fear of being " ruu in," it was too near the polico station, Valunlicn sustained.

B. Sincock, shop (mil allotment, Pollen etreot L 26, reduced to L 22.

Re Gralnuu'n EeUito: Soyerul allotments wore transferred to tho naicoe of nulivos. • John Wilson, Block 13, Application for transfer to tho irustoos in the eslato of tho lato John Anderson. Mr Lush appeared for applicant, but was unable to aluto who tho Trustees woru or where they wmo to bo found, Application dismissed, Wuilolm Gold Mining Company,—This wag an appeal against tho aesosmnent on the grounds llmt a l>l:icksmilli,e shop was included in the valuation. Mr Lub! , who appeared for tho objaolori', argued that iho blackßinith'ti Bhop wua part of the mining inncliinury and ihureforo oxiinip , , Mr F. (J, Dsun iirgnuil tlmt bluoke'im'th's shops was not necoßHiirily bo, ami quoted a decision by Hie Supremo Court of Victoria iu support of hia contention that it should lie nil oil,

Doeisiiin reserved,

L Eliri-tjl'iU'l, iiliolmuii , , buililing, and stable, Tnniru Koud, £18, Thin w.ib an old hotel buililinrj. Mr Styak staled tlmt tho pi'iiinieeH were lot for 5s pur w.:olc, there wns difliciilty in betel imildiußH, people would not live in ilium. Vulmilion 6UEtaii)ud.

A Bdcklunil, allotiiißtilß and buildingß in Uwcfj Blioot woro roduuud by consent J512

to £6, £20 to £10, £20 to £12, £14 to £7, ill to £6.

S, Howard, hotel and allotment, Golden Crown streot, £40. Tho objector deposed that ho paid £1 por week for hotel and furniture. Valuation sustained.

Anron Griffithi>, Royal Hotel and allotment, Tararu Road, £40. Mr W. S, Styak said thoro was no business doing, he valued the property at 10s per week. Mr Smith deposud he had kept the house, there was no business dono iu it, and littlo more in the Empire which ho kept now. V"luation sustained.

Mr SiJiith, Empire Hotel and allotments, Owen shear, £80, Objector deposed that lie paid LI per week fur tho house, ho did not know why, certainly not bocauso it was worth that amount. There wne no trade doing, It was not a house to attract a respoctablo trade. Reduced to L7l. A, II: Sparked, Governor Fergueson Hotel, LSO. Objector deposed that he paid no rent, there wns no trado doing. W. 8. Styak said that Iho lioubo could not pay more thau the liceuse Reduced to L3B.

Robert Ensor, Post Office Hotel, corner of Maiy and Rolleston streets, LSO. W. S, Slyak appeared for objector, and statod that tho occupier was paying L2G per year rent. Reduced to L 44.

This concluded the business boforo the court.