Rating Special Settlements.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 319, 21 May 1894, Page 2

Rating Special Settlements.

The question of the ridiculously high valuations put upon sections in some of the special settlements in the Pohangina district cropped up at the Pohangina Road Board Meeting on Saturday. Warden J. G. Browne produced a list of these valuations, showing that land which was not of wonderfully rich quality, and entirely inaccessable by means of roads, was priced at from j£l to £1 10s and acre. He said that if the rating were based upon these high values it. would be a great injustice to the selectors, to many of whom, who were struggling men, this burden would be a heavy one. Warden Bell considered the valuations •were fully fifty per cent, too high, the utmost value being from 10s to 15s per acre, most of the land in the Coal Creek Block having been sold for that price. Several of the Wardens stated the state of affairs was misrepresented. Warden Vicary was opposed to any reduction, considering the large amount of money that would bo required to be spent on roads in the locality. On the motion of Warden Arbou, seconded by Warden Browne, it was resolved that the id road rate only, and not the 4'd county rate, be collected from the settlers in the Salisbury, Delaware, and Pohangina Small Farm Settlements for the currnt year. — Stau dard.