ASSESSMENT COURT.

Timaru Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 1763, 25 June 1877, Page 3

ASSESSMENT COURT.

WAIMATE— Fhidat, Jxnm 22. : (Before B. Woollcombe, Esq., Judge.) An adjourned Assessment Court was held on the above date. Mr White attended as solicitor for the ' Waimate County Cooncil, and Messrs Parry and Hamersley for aeTeral of the objector*. The Chairman and Clerk of the County Council were alio present. Mr Perry addressed the Court on behalf of several objectors whote objections had been adjudged to be informal at the last sitting of the Court, Bnd pleading for leare to amend some of the notice* of objection, the informality of which had been of a trivial character. Mr White stated he liad been instructed, by the County Council not to prest on ' objections the informality of which was' merely technical, and he would leave tha ' matter to the Court. : : Leave wa« allowed to grant a re-hearing to ' objections by giving proper notices to the"' Court. ■ A. Turnbull, as nsent for the Canterbury and Otago Association, applied for an altera- ' lion m the rateable Talue as given m the Tain- - ation Hat for Pareora riding. Several witnesses were examined, and the Talue as given by the assessors was altered from £8300 to £6840. Charles Hendry applied for tlie alteration) of his name on the .zaU roll of the Otaio Riding, the name being returned m the valuatbn list as Wiliam C. Hendry, instead ofCharles. . ' The nane was altered to Charles. Charles Meyers objected to the amount afcj which his property was TsJued m the list foe' tho Otaio Siding. , . ' Witnesses baring been examined and cross- " examined on both sides, the Court adjudged that the amount set down as the Talue of the ' freehold property be lowered from £1898 to £1665 12s 6J ; and that the leasehold be' lowered from £1050 to £379. Messrt Sealey and McLaren objeoted to thesum set down on the list for the rateable! Talue of their property m Otaio Bidin/r (£llOl 10s) as being aboTe the Talue. •//, Several witnesses gaTe evidence m this caae.: No reduction was allowed. ■ 't , A. Turnbull objected to- G. G. BussedLV name being inserted m the list for the Ot»ip Biding as owner of property which belonged, to the Canterbury and Otago Association. . '. Correction allowed. r • Tesehemaker and LeCren objected to the' rateable Talue of their freehold and leasthold! properties. : '. • '"" On evidence being taken, the Court allowed are I act ion on the freehold property from £4439 to £3454, and on the leasehold from £750 to £150. . i > G. B. Parker's objection to the rateable" Talue of hi* property at Blakikihi was al- :i lowed, and it was lowered from £2405 to' £1816. • . . .:Tt Quinn Brothers' property was lon ered from ' £465 to £327. : " Tesehemaker and LeOren's Valuation was raised from £386 to £478. i ; .•• ' ' There were no abjections to the list for the Hakateramea Biding. ; ' The Assessment Court then adjourned to' Friday, the 29th in»t., at 10 o'clock, the objections to the valuation list for Deep Greet. Biding having yet to be consider*.! and adjudicated, on. • ' ■ : %