FARMS IN BOROUGH

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 403, 11 July 1928, Page 6

FARMS IN BOROUGH

INQUIRY INTO RATE PROBLEM FEILDING AS EXAMPLE Press Association WELLINGTON, To-day. A commission recently took evidence in Otaki for the purpose of seeing if something could not be obtained to solve the problem of heavy rating in boroughs. “But,” said the Hon. A. D. McLeod, to-day, "the evidence was too much coloured by local conditions to form a panacea for the rest of the Dominion. The Government has therefore arranged for the commission to make a further inquiry into the board issue of the classification of borough lands for rating purposes, and the levying of differential rates by borough councils.”

After careful consideration of all the complaints that have been received from various places, both by Mr. McLeod and by the Department of Internal Affairs, the Borough of Feilding has been selected for the inquiry, as this borough gives a typical example of the classes of lands and the hardships of the farming community in the borough, but has not the abundance of local difficulties that Otaki had. The commission will begin its inquiries at the Courthouse, Feilding, on Monday next, July 16. The personnel of the commission will be the same as the Otaki one, viz., Messrs. R. M. Watson, stipendiary magistrate, Feilding; v\ . T. Strandfi, Mayor of Lower Hutt, and W. Nash, general secretary of the New Zealand Labour Party.