URBAN LANDS BILL
SOME OPPOSITION SHOWN. By Telegraph—Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, October 15. The progress of the Urban Farm Lands Rating Bill is likely to be a slow me when it reaches the House, judging from the many aspects of opinion voiced before the Local Bills Committee. When evidence of delegates from various local bodies controlling boroughs in different parts of New Zealand was taken to-day, a majority asked for a postponement of the bill, and its further consideration for twelve months, and none of them appeared to favour it in its present form.
Hie Minister, Hon. P. A. de la Per-i-elle, thought that most authorities would agree that small farmers surrounded by boroughs must get some relief. Borough Councils were n<s so one-sided not to see that. He hoped the Bill would not be shelved but that the measure would be put on the Statute book, giving some relief from the more burdensome rates.
Mr D. G. Sullivan (Avon) suggested that steps should be taken so that special valuations could be made in regard to the areas it was proposed to benefit.
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Hokitika Guardian, 15 October 1929, Page 5
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183URBAN LANDS BILL Hokitika Guardian, 15 October 1929, Page 5
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