INVALID PETITION
SOME SIGNATORIES DEAD
By Telegraph.—Press Association.
Auckland, April 12.
Au extraordinary position has been revealed in connection with the petition eent to the City Council last week, asking for a poll to be taken on the question of rating all properties in the city area ou the basis of the unimproved values.
Aa a result of an examination of the petition by the City Valuer uo poll will be held. One of the factors rendering the jiebition invalid is that some of the pemons whose signatures appear thereon have been dead several years. The valuer’s report ga.ve instjtnces of names attached to various sheets of the petition of persons who were no longer living. One, ho said, died 14 years ago in Jxmdon; another eight years ago, one in 1917, and one in 1918. The ciiy solicitor 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 js below the required proportion, so no poll will eventuate.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 169, 13 April 1921, Page 10
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174INVALID PETITION Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 169, 13 April 1921, Page 10
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