LAND VALUES LEAGUE

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2410, 16 March 1915, Page 7

LAND VALUES LEAGUE

—: « . At lart night's weekly meeting of I the Wellington branch of the Land j Values League, the chairman (Mr. P. jj J. O'Kegan) announced that the ,ratot payers. of .Onehunga had adopted rat- ' mg oil .unimproved values on March 9 by 563 votes to 391, a majority of 172. The victory was all,the more satisfacr_ tory.for the reason that it had been . * won- in'the. face of strong opposition ' from the-local Presß. a After discussion on the methods 6 adopted by the opposition at this aid the_ Featherston county poll, the fol--11 lowing resolution was'.adopted, oh the 0 motion of Mr. 0. Edwames, seconded 1 by Mr. A. A. Hould: "That this ® league protests against the palpable t bias of the Press Association m omitting to telegraph the results of ratine 0 polls, a matter in which a large and r growing section of the public is interim ested,' and one of the utmost concern to local governing bodies throughout s 1 the oountry." The following resolution was also carried: ' "That this league e heartily , congratulates Mr. A. H. n M.P., for his outspoken •, ' declaration in favour of placing the war o tax on. the unimproved value of land." y ' : ; —— '