UNIMPROVED RATING
ORGANISING PETITION FOR AUCKLAND Mr. P. J. O’Regan, of Wellington addressed a meeting last evening to set in motion a campaign to secure unimproved rating for Auckland city. After the visitor had expounded his reasons for altering the existing system. a committee was formed, with Mr. C. H. Nightingale as secretary, to obtain the signatures of about 4,000 ratepayers. This number represents the 15 per cent, required to demand a poll for the new system. Mr. O’Regan said that rating on unimproved values was a just and equitable system. Under rating on capital value the more industrious ratepayer automatically taxed himself. Out of the 120 boroughs in the Dominion 77 had adopted the unimproved values rating. Showing the satisfaction given by the system, the speaker said that although polls could be held every three years to rescind the change, so far only 22 polls had been held. Of these only five had been carried and three had reverted to rating on unimproved values.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 348, 8 May 1928, Page 12
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165UNIMPROVED RATING Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 348, 8 May 1928, Page 12
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