COUNTY VALUATIONS

Waipa Post, Volume 32, Issue 1783, 17 July 1926, Page 4

COUNTY VALUATIONS

WAIPA SHOWS APPRECIABLE DECKEASE. FIGURES FOR EACH <RrDIN». In preparing the estimates fop-tha current year the finance committee of the Waipa County Council had to base its computations on the valuations in each riding, and a)s there ■ have been adjustments in the valuation of lands in each riding since the previous estimates were prepared it was an. undertaking of no little magnitude. We have obtained from the county clerk (Mr T. Grant) figures bearing on the estimates, and therefrom we take Aba following European land valuations for the current year, as compared with those of a year ago. Some of the ridings show slight increases, otheife the reverse; while in one or two ridings the variation is considerable. They are:—

The total valuation of European land in the whole county is therefore £5,471,254 at present, as against £5,596,381 previously, a decrease of just over £125,000. It will be seen that in the ridings of Newcastle, Pukekura, Orakau, Kaipaki, Rangiaohia, and Tuhikaramea there has been a decrease, though in the case of Tuhikaramea 'the decrease is very small. Taken generally, there has been an increase in the areas j nearer the centres of population, particularly nearer Hamilton, while the decrease is more manifest in the ridings more remote from the centres.

1926 1925 Riding £ £ Newcastle .. 778,005 798,224 Mang&piko ... . .. 753,177 693,469 Kakeptuku .. 287:008 273,469 Pukekura .. 6*51,307 828,677 Orakau ,. 541,481 599,387 . Hamilton .. 555,725 456,536 - Rukuhia ,. 421,615 375,105 Kaipaki ,. 352,669 379,800 Rangiaohia ,'.. 614,651 672,194 Tuhikaramea ., ,. 515,616 516,520