ASSESSMENT COURT.

Globe, Volume IX, Issue 1256, 28 March 1878, Page 2

ASSESSMENT COURT.

SYDENHAM. [Before Q-.L. Mellisb, Esq., Judge.] The Assessment Court for the Borough of Sydenham sat this morning in the Council offices, at a quarter past ten o’clock, to hear objections against the valuer’s assessment. Mr W. Cuthbert, Borough Clerk was in attendance. The following is the result: —• BATE OBJECTIONS. The following objections had been received too late to bo dealt with :—Thomas Menzies, W. Bowden, J. Hague, W. Cane, James Q-css, R. Q-. Palmer, J. Ashton, C. Higgs, W. Wells, and A. A. Smith. OBJECTIONS HEAED. A. M, Philpott, gravel pit, assessed at £9O ; tfflß Bwessed last year at £B, A mietßke w&s

shown to have been made in size of | section the assessment had also been made on quantity of gravel annually taken out; assessment reduced to £8 ; John Milne, house and land £35, reduced to £26 ; J. R. Andrew (Waltham Public Library), assessed at _ £2O, assessment disallowed ; J. T. Bro*rn (timber yard—one acre), £3OO, reduced to £150; G. H. Sharpe, £l7, reduced to £10; G-. H. Sharpe, £lB, reduced to £ls ; G. 11. Sharpe, £2O 16s, reduced to £l7 ; GK H. Sharpe, £2B 12s, reduced to £2O ; H. Fox, £3O ; assessment confirmed ; F. Fox, £2B, reduced to £23 j H. Fox, two properties, each £2l, assessment confirmed ; James Burbury, £-11, reduced to £3B; C, Ladds, £22, reduced to £ls ; Elizabeth Batcheldor, £22, reduced to £l6 ; John Leabody, £SO, reduced to £37 ; H. Wright, £9O, assessment confirmed; John Gilford, £2O, reduced to £l7 ; Jas. Stewart, £3O, reduced to £24; J. T. Pepperell. £3O; reduced to £2l; Thomas Edwards, £2-12, reduced to £200; Cunningham and Co., £220, reduced to £IBO ; Anna Hadfleld, £25, reduced to £2O ; Thomas Cutler, £26 (mistake made in size of land), reduced to £lO j Thomas Webb, £lB, reduced to £l7; Thomas Webb, £3O, reduced to £25; James Weir, £2O, reduced to £ls ; J. D. Cranston, £45, reduced to £3l; James Schrader, £4B, reduced to £45; W. Mills, £3B, reduced to £32; Wm. Langdown, £620, reduced to £459 ; F. T. Haskins, £3O, reduced to £26 ; Christchurch City Council, objection allowed, as it was shown that the Council were only tenants-at-will. [Left sitting.]