THE LAND TAX COURT.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 326, 2 September 1879, Page 2

THE LAND TAX COURT.

The sittings of this Court were continued on Monday, August 25. J. Aylmer, Esq., R.M., acting as Judge, and Mr A. I. M'Gregor appearing on behalf of the Department. AKAROA AND WAINUI ROAD DISTRICT. W. Whilfield, valuation sustained. Geo. Armstrong, valuation reduced from £14,020 to £9132; second objection withdrawn. H. B. Johnstone, Christchurch, valuation confirmed. John Glynan, no appearance, valuation sustained. B. M'Cloy, valuation reduced from £540 to £480. D. Kennedy, no appearance, valuation sustained, J. D. Bruce, no appearance, roll confirmed. B. Mora, valuation sustained. F» Lelievre, numbers of sections corrected and acieage reduced by 250 acres, valuation reduced pro rata. Eugene Lelievre, acreage ad-. justed. Eev. W. Aylmer, acreage adjusted. Mrs Kowe, description of property amended. W. Montgomery, numbers, of sections and acreage adjusted, and section 1635 added to the roll. L. Perham. no appearance, valuation confirmed. Wood and Allan, no appearance, valuation confirmed. R. and G. Rhodes, 175 acres,: Wainui, reduced to £13,600. J..F. Roberts, objections informal, and assessment on roll sustained. F. Lyon, objection informal, assessment sustained. okain's bay road district. Cuff and Graham, no appearance, five objections sustained, and section 20247 added to the" roll. Church Property Trustees, by Mr Nalder, reduced to £180. P. Callaghan, no appearance, valuation sustained. R. Dawber, reduced from £3457 to £3374, acreage of section 15326 reduced from 94 to 74 acres. A. Waghorn, jun., no appearance, valuation sustained. A. Waghorn, sen., no appearance, valuation sustained. T. H. Aldridge, Le Bon's Bay, reduced from £1360 to £1344. Geo. Craw, Little Akaloa, valuation sustained. H. M'lntosh, acreage sustained. H. Bailey, no appearance, valuation sustained. W. P. Hartstone, valuation and acreage sustained. R. Marshall, Little Akaloa, name corrected. H. N. Nalder, Lyttelton, no appearance, valuation sustained. Win, and H. Barnett, valuation and acreage sustained. H. Piper, informal, and assessment sustained. J. Hamilton, objection informal. C. Marshall, Little Akaloa, informal. W. R. Bailey, acreage corrected, and corresponding reduction made in the valuation. PIGEON BAY ROAD DISTRICT. Church Property Trustees, valuation reduced from £672 to £655. J. Budua, no appearance, improvements adjusted. J. and W. Lyall, no appearance, acreage and section numbers adjusted. W. Lyall, sen., no appearance, sections and acreage adjusted. J. Hay, for the Executors of the late E. Hay, reduced by £7222 10s. W. Langdon, struck off the roll. W. Paton, sen., no appearance, valuation sustained. C. Marshall, entered on Okain's Bay roll. C. and C. Marshall, no appearance, adjustments granted. PORT LEVY ROAD DISTRICT. Harvey Hawkins, no appearance,-valua-sustained. Geo. Field, no appearance, valuation sustained. R. Rhodes, by Mr Nalder, valuation sustained. H. Garden, no appearance, entries on the roll sustained. LITTLE RIVER ROAD DISTRICT. The sittings of the Court for considering the objections in this district were held at Wascoe's Hotel, Little River, on Wednesday, Angust 27. J. Aylmer, Esq., R. M., acting as judge, and Mr James Wilson, the valuer for the district, appearing in support of the valution, and Mr A. I. M'Gregor on behalf of the Department. Section 2145, 314 acres, was transferred from the name of Rev. A. P. Callaghan to that of J. Gebbie. Dr Doyle, acreage reduced 13 acres, and the valuation reduced to £3348. T. King, no appearance, entry on roll sustained. H. de Bourbel, no appearance, valuation sustained. D. S. Melville, claim for exemption, not granted. Bell and Ensor, no appearance, entry on roll sustained. David Gebbie, 541 acres reduced by 15 atires and £83 valuation. Miles and Co., no appearance, valuation sustained. J. Wright, sen., no appearance, valuation and acreage sustained. F. Ruthgen, no appearance, valuation sustained. Jamieson Bros., corrected to Andrew Jamieson and others. Patrick Henly, no appearance, valuation sustained. R. Clephane, do. W. Andrew, no appearance. J. Herrick, acreage and valuation reduced. E. Grey, numbers of sections amended. T. Parkinson, no appearance, 319 acres altered at the request of the valuer from £6580 to £5215. _ Dr Prins, no appearance, valuation sustained. Mary Gebbie, per J, Gebbie, acreage reduced from 6833 to 2954 acres, it not being in the district, and- the valuation prp rata. G. Butler, no appearance, valuation confirmed. R. and G. Rhodes, reduced from £2900 to £2386. : R. Mortan, no ap- j pearance, entries on roll confirmed, with the exception cf 57 acres transferred to the name of F. Smith. F. Smith, acreage reduced to 75, and valuation to £337 10s, section 11456, 29 acres added, value £121 j 10s. J. Stanbury, objection informal and not allowed. Snow and Anson, freehold struck out of Akaroa and Wainui roll, and 500 acres leasehold charged in Akaroa and Wainui, and 1500 in the Little River district. The court then adjourned till Friday next at Akaroa. On Friday and Saturday last the Court was occupied in making the alterations in the rolls as ordered, and in signing the same.