SYSTEM OF RATING

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 53, 26 November 1926, Page 10

SYSTEM OF RATING

ACTION BY CITY COUNCIL

Following upon the carrying of a motion, moved by Councillor Al. F. Ltickie, that the city change from rating on the basis of the unimproved value to rating on the annual rate, a petition is now being circulated for ratepavers’ signatures calling for a poll on the issue? At the last meeting of the council the Labour members (who are opposed to the change) asked whether the Citv Corporation was responsible for the printing and distribution of the petition forms. The reply was in the affirmative. Each of the lists is headed as follows: —

“Whereas by a poll taken on November 14, 1901, of the ratepayers of the citv of Wellington as then constituted on a proposal to adopt in the city of Wellington as then constituted the system of rating on the basis of the unimproved value the said proposal was carried, and whereas pursuant to such poll the system of rating on the basis of the unimproved value is in force in the city of Wellington as constituted in the financial year 1926-19-27, we, the undersigned ratepayers of the said city, being desirous that rates shall cease to be made and levied on the basis of the unimproved value, hereby demand that a proposal that the adoption of the svstem of rating, property on the basis of the unimproved value be rescinded in the citv of Wellington be submitted to the ratepayers’ vote.”