TAKAPUNA RATING
An audience of about 100 assembled at the Pictudedrome, Milford, last evening to hear a debate on the need for rating on the unimproved values in Takapuna. The Hon. Geo. Fowlds stated the case for unimproved rating and Mr. C. -S. Leahy argued against. Mr. H. M. Gould also spoke in opposition to the proposed change. It would, he said, force values down and with that the rating basis, and there would not be any relief in the rates struck. The fact that 75 places now used the unimproved system was no criterion, as movements like that often went in fashions, a sortof pendulum that would swing back and strike the people very hard.
The argument got a little mixed at times, and Mr. Fowlds said that if Mr. Gould had so much to say he had better mount the platform. Votes of thanks were accorded the speakers.^
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 76, 21 June 1927, Page 9
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