WATER ASSESSMENT.

Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2694, 5 October 1871, Page 2

WATER ASSESSMENT.

To the Editor. Sir, —In the coarse of the last few days I have received t'.vo notice? of valuation from the Water Works Company, signed by a Mr Wm. ! Begg—notice No. 1, notifying that one of my properties has been rated at a certain amount, being L 33 above the Corporation assessment ; notice No. 2, stating that another property has been rated at another amount, being L 5 less than the Corporation assessment. Now, where the law gives a Corporation or person power to assess property for taxation, it implies that a fit and experienced person shall be employed to assess, and not a mere inexperienced youth, who, until recently, has been the collector of the company—probably a very good one. Anyone with a small modicum of brains, with a proclivity for dunning, can fill that office, and boys are usually employed, but it doesn’t at all follow that he will make an assessor, as the above instance will shew. Everyone knows that it requires a person of experience to assess or value properties, whether for taxation or tale. It is all very well to say “ appeal,” but it is not right that the citizens should be put to the trouble, and sometimes expense of appealing against the blunder of a youthful inexperienced assessor, precocious though he may be. Yours, &c., CITOVENNE.