URBAN FARMS

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 87, 13 April 1938, Page 11

URBAN FARMS

LOWER HUTT ASSESSMENTS

A sitting of the Urban Farm Lands Court was held yesterday in the Lower Hutt Borough Council Chambers. :.Mr. H. P. Lawry, S.M., was chairman. The market gardeners' assessor was Mr. F. S. Hewer and the Lower.' Hutt Borough Council assessor was Mr; W. Smith.

The Court was set up under the Urban Farms Bating Act, which during the depression gave owners of farms' 7or agricultural property,;within a borough;.power:to appeal 1 for reductions in valuations for rating poses on the ground that their, properties were used-exclusively pr/priricipally for farm or agricultural .purposes. _ . '■;■

Mr. E. P. Bunny and Mr. N. T. Gillespie represented the Lower Hutt Borough Cbuncil and Mr. E. F. Rothwell the applicants, who were divided into two sections, those owning three or less acres and-those owning more than three.

The principal reduction was made In the case of Mr. H. J. Poole, who Is in the position of having a proclamation over his land for railway purposes, which prevents his subdividing his land and selling.

The decisions of the Court were as follows (the Government valuation, the Court's valuation, and the reduction, if any, being given in each case):—

THREE ACRES AND LESS

C. P. Killeen, Melling, £500, £450, £50; Isabella Kells, Malone Road, £725, £725; nil; Robert Kells, dairyman, Malone Road, £775, £775, nil; Henry Cudby, gardener, Malone Road, £500 £475, £25; George and May Mearing, Bauchop Road, £700, £680; £20; Peter Hanratty, Bauchop Road, £625, £625, nil; Frederick -Bertlesen, Park Avenue, £675, £675, nil; Rebecca Bertram, Birdwood Road, £800, £750,- ---£ SO; B. L. Anstis Birdwood Road, £700, ' £700, nil; Henry Frederick Anstis, gardener, Birdwood Road, £700, £650, £50; Charles Frederick Pilcher, -nurseryman, Waiwetu Road, £750 £750, nil; Davi& D. Robertson, farmer, Waiwetu Road, £310, £310, nil; Henry James Poole, nurseryman, Waterloo Road, £10^0, £960, £120; George-, Mumford, Waterloo Road, £750, £725, £25; £750, £750, nil; £750 £725, £25; Charles Johnson, Birdwood Road, £800, £800; nil; J. A. Pascini, £625. £605, £20; £600, £585, £15.

MORE THAN THREE ACRES.

John Ball, Gracefleld and Wainui Roads, £500, £450, £25; A. J. J. Haynes, Birdwood Road, £875, £875, nil; Albert John Tilbury, gardener, Park Avenue, £1400, £1350, £50; Andrew Bumgay, Waterloo and Waiwetu Boads, £2500, £2500, nil; William Robert Manderson, farmer, Birdwood Road, £1250, £1250, nil; Henry James Poole, nurseryman, Waterloo Road, £4500, £4000, £500; A. F. Cox, fruiterer, Miro Miro Road, Normandale, £450, £450, nil; T. W. and R. R. Orr, King's Crescent and Epuni Street, £3800, £3800, nil; Giovanni Bargiacchi, fishmonger, Connolly and Mills Streets, £550, £550, nil; Prometeo Loli, Mills Street, £260, £260, nil; David D. Robertson, farmer, Waiwetu Road and Trafalgar Street, £2500, £2500, nil; T. R. Foster, Birdwood Road, £1250, £1200, £50; Mrs. M. Pescini, Park Avenue, £900, £875. £25; Daird Balls, Park Avenue, £850, £825, £25; John Weir, jun., Park Avenue, £1375, £1335, £40; Thomas Waugh, nurseryman, Lincoln Avenue, £1200, £1200 nil; "Francesco Mazzola, High and Boulcott Streets, £2400. £2400, nil; G. F. Norton, builder. Gracefield Road, £1.300, £1300, nil; George Ernest Engelbrecht. Connolly Street, £275, £275, nil. "