RATING ON UNIMPROVED VALUES.

Motueka Star, Volume I, Issue 7, 3 September 1901, Page 4

RATING ON UNIMPROVED VALUES.

The figures taken from a, return showing the voting in the polls taken <v\ the question of the adoption of the Rating on TTninrproved Values Act are as follows, with the addition of Gore;" -which p )11 has been taken since the i' onrn. was made up :—The numter of ■ .lis taken throughout the Colony was f .rty-five, and the polls were carried in t, lirty four districts, and rejected in eleven districts. The voting in the d striots where the proposal was carried w,n 7010 for and 1605 against. With respect to the polling iu the districts where the proposal was rejected, thM v:>t:.ng was more in fav r than aga.in.->t.tS a id this is accounted f ,r by the. facto

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AS OTHERS SEE US. —o — On returning to South Australia after his visit to New Zealand recently, Mr Tom Price, M.P., and a member of the South Australian Labor Party, gave an interview to a representative of the Adelaide Observer. Mr Price had something to say about our coal question. There is, he said, in New Zealand a monopoly in the shape of a ring in the coal trade, the result of which is that people have to pay 45s per ton, and tiiey even refuse to sell less than a t.m at a, time.

When spe.ds.iug to Mr Seddon" about this very matter, he said, "In less than six weeks frt.ni the date at which I speak, I shall be in possession of two State collieries. My people of New Zealand shall not he robbed by any section of the community. I will deliver the same coal in Wellington and Dunedin at <£! 5s per ton. The people's interest is the first interest with me. : ' As far as the wage-earners are concerned they are satisfied that the labour laws make for their general happiness. One of the pleasantest features of the New Zealand pe >ple and politicians is their apparent harmony. Country and city members appear to work together. The gi eat secret of the prosperity and success of New Zealand, after all, is her land settlement policy.