ASSESSMENT COURT.

Manawatu Herald, Volume II, Issue 59, 19 March 1880, Page 2

ASSESSMENT COURT.

Wednesday, March 17, 1880. (Before R. Ward, Esq., Judge ) An adjourned sitting of the Court was held on Wednesday last. J. T. Stewart objected to the rate able value of £100 put on section 210, his property. Mr John Young appeared on behalf of Mr Stewart, who, he said, had gone to Wanganui. Mr Thynne objected to Mr Young appearing as the agent for Mr Stewart. His Honor said it was for Mr Stewart to upset the valuation, and if he was not present to give evidence it would be his own loss.— Mr Young thought th© value of the property would be about £60 per annum ; it was well fenced, and a portion of it was planted. The property he thought would be worth £1000 ; he did not know cost of the recent additions to the property. Mr Thynue, in reply to the Court, stated that his valuation represented a little over 5 per cent, on what he considered was the value of the land and the money spent on his house. Objection dismissed. Andrew Jonson objected to the rateable value of the property ocou-

pied by him on Wain street, Foxton, md asked that it nvght be reduced from £60. — Reduced by consents to £45. ** Same objector to rateable value of part native land, valued at £5. üb* lection withdrawn. John Furcell objected to the valua* fcion upon two properties owned by him, and asked that they might be reduced from n£2o and" £85. Mr Purcell and Mr Hodder save evidenoe to the effect that the property was not worth the sum placed upon it by Mr Thynne. Mr Gray was oalled on the opposite side. The objections were dismissed. N. Bartlett objected to the valua* tion placed upon a house owned by him on Moutoa road, and oormpied. by Mr Burgess. — Reduced to £30 by consent of the valuator. Samuel Durant objected to being rated at £25 for house on block 8, part native land.— Reduced by consent to £20. The butcher's shop lately in occu* pation of Mr Hodder was transferred by consent to Jas. Robinson. This concluded the objections, and t\e roll was then duly signed by the Judge of the Assessment Court, and declared to bo the valuation roll for the ensuing year.