THE RATING SYSTEM.
■AN INVALID PETITION. "(PBBSS ASSOCIATiOKr OTEtEGBAM.)' AUCKLAND, April 12. ■An extraordinary position has been revealed in connexion with a petition sent to the City Council last week, -asking for a poll to be taken on .the question of rating all properties in the-city area on the basis of the unimproved value. As a result of an examination of the petition by the City, Valuer, no poll, will be held. • One of the factors rendering the petition invalid is that aome of the persons whose signatures appear , thereon have been dead several years. A total ;of 937 names appeared on an old portion of the petition. The Valuer'* report gave instances of the names attached to various sheets of the petition being of persons who were no longer living! One, he said, died 14 yeara ago in London, another eight years ago, one in 1917, and one in 1918. The_ city solicitpr advised that the Council;could not treat these old signatures as valid. _. The ' deductions left names.representing only 12.5.per cent, of,the. ratepayers, which is below the required portion, bo no poll will be taken. . ; „
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Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17118, 13 April 1921, Page 8
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186THE RATING SYSTEM. Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17118, 13 April 1921, Page 8
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