LAND VALUATIONS.
The Valuer General, Mr G. F. C. Campbell, has furnished to the Wellington Press some interesting figures regarding the increase .in the Government valuations of land indecent years. The following table shows the remarkable increase in total valuations from 1878 to 1906.
The largest share of the increase of 96 mfllic-hs between 1891 and 1906 was made in the North Island, 67 millions there, an increase of 111.per, cent. and. 29.millions in the South. Island; -an mcreas&-of : 44£ per cent. In both islands: 61; millions were 1 added to the land values- and, 35 millioris to improvements. In 1891; counties were valued (capital) at 86-: millions and per. oenfe)sand: the boroughs: to 74| millions (nearly 104 i per cent).- ;
Year of Capital Unimproved Valuation. Values. Values. £ > 62,573,863 18# 99,566,679 1882 101,000,000 ' ... 1885 113,270,649 1888 •■•• • 111,137,714 75,497,379 1891 .--.■ 122,225,029 75,832,465 1897 138,591,347 84,401,727 1902 154^816,132 ■-' 94,84?,727 1904 -'■ 182,796,241 112,629,412 1905 197,684,475 122,937,126 1906 218,422,552 137,168,548
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Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 13152, 7 December 1906, Page 7
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156LAND VALUATIONS. Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 13152, 7 December 1906, Page 7
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