MOUNT EDEN’S RATES

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 651, 1 May 1929, Page 14

MOUNT EDEN’S RATES

CHANGE TO UNIMPROVED MR. O’REGAN’S ADDRESS A statement that rating on unimproved values would be disastrous to the Borough of Mount Eden was challenged by Mr. P. J. O’Regan, of Wellington, in an address in Mount Eden last evening. The speaker made particular reference to unimproved values rating on which there is to be a poll of ratepayers in the borough next Monday. Mr. O’Regan said that there were 119 boroughs in New Zealand, and 77 had adopted the system. In 54 out of 129 countries it had also been adopted definitely. Two years ago the ratepayers in Wellington had placed all the rates on unimproved value after having the system partially in operation for 25 years. Over the 23 square miles in Wellington City, there was a total rate of 7id in the pound on the unimproved system. According to the latest official figures, the capital value of Mount Eden was £5,250,959, of which the unimproved value represented £2,038,403. The revenue last j'ear from the rates was equivalent to a rate on the capital value of 2.6 d in the pound. If the taxes "were exempt from improvements the total rate would have to be increased to about 6.7 d in the pound. The practical result would be that the great majority of ratepayers would pay less than under the present system. A resolution pledging support ot the proposed change in rating was carried.

RIALTO, AND REGENT, EPSOM “ALOMA OF THiFsOUTH SEAS” A young American on a South Sea isle, drinking himself right down to ! the gutter. A brown-skinned dancer who adores him * because he once ; defended her. j Tropical nights. | the pounding surf —and love. Enter a native who longs for the girl. He swears vengeance if anything should happen to her. Then along comes an old sweetheart, now married to the lad’s best friend. That is the setting for Gilda Gray’s romantic picture. ‘‘Aloma of the South Seas,” now at the Rialto and Regent (Epsom) Theatres. “The Michigan Kid.” which is also being shown, is a Rex Beach story of the Alaska gold rush, starring Conrad Xaerel.

EVERYBODY’S •CHEYENNE” A typical spectacle of the old new West —a play depicting the spj r of the locality—this is described in <* word, the rodeo. The rodeo is typical West, and people all over the wor. know or have seen the bucking brot clios, roping, steer-throwing, racit. and other events that marked the U of the early Western country. Rodec are still held in America, and find er thusiasts that follow them with tfc regularity of a baseball fan. One c the most successful of these round-op is held in Cheyenne, Wyoming, ever year. The last one furnished the baev ground for ‘’Cheyenne,” Ken Maynarc latest picture, now showing at Ever body’s Theatre. Here every event tb displays daring skill and horsemanship cattle-branding, racing. and otbe sports is graphically shown. At the head of the bright supports, programme is the latest chapter it * The Mystery Rider” series.