COUNTY RATING.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5420, 6 May 1929, Page 2

COUNTY RATING.

UNIMPROVED VALUE SYSTEM. EFFECT IN OHINEMURI. At the Ohinemuri County Council meeting on Thursday Cr. J. B. Morris, Karangahake riding, brought up the question of rating on the unimproved value within the county, and asked whether the council could give some lead or indication as to its own views on the proposed. change in the rating system. The chairman explained that the proposiiton had not emanated from the council, but from some of the ratepayers themselves, who had petitioned the council to take a poll. Upon the presentation of such a petition the council was obliged by law to take the poll. Under these circumstances it was not in the council’s province to advise the ratepayers in the matter, but to leave it to their own decisions. On Cr. F. C. Hubbard (Paeroa) asking if it would be possible to state what the difference in rating would be under the new system as compared with the present system, it was decided to ask the Press if it would aid in the matter by giving a comparison of the differences. Acting on the council’s request, the “Hauraki Plains Gazette” gives below the approximate figures as prepared by the council :— Under the present system of rating the rate struck last year in the ridings of the county was as follows, and the rate which would be required to produce the same amount by rating on unimproved value is given in parentheses after each riding : Mangaiti, (3d) ; Kaimanawa, Hid (3H) ; Paeroa, 2d (4d) ; Waitekauri, 2d (4 2-3 d) ; Waihi, 2 (4 l-sd) ; Waikino, 2d (7d) ; Karangahake, 2d (4 2-3 d). From these figures ratepayers will be able to work out approximately how the change of rating system, if carried, will individually affect them. Although, presumably, this question will be looked at from a much broader standpoint, as to its general effect on the county as a whole, no doubt ratepayers will be more or less influenced by the direct effect on them personally.