FARMS IN BOROUGHS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 753, 28 August 1929, Page 7

FARMS IN BOROUGHS

RELIEF FROM HEAVY RATING TWO DILLS BEFORE HOUSE (TEE HUN'S Parliamentary Reporter.) PARLIAMENT BLDGS., Tuesday. Two of the popular Bills to be brought down this session will doubtless be Ihe Otaki Borough Adjustment and Farm Lands Rating Bill and Urban Farm Lands Rating Bill, both sponsored by the Minister of Internal Affairs, the Hon. P. A. d.e la Perrelle. They provide for differential rating. The first is the outcome of the findinjfs of the commission of inquiry following upon complaints of Otaki people about heavy rating on lands either taken into the Borough of Otaki or adjacent to it. These were lauds not suitable for building or potential building sites which were rated as heavily as lands suitable for building sites. By the Otaki Bill it is proposed that the borough be brought to its usual size and reclassification of lands effected. This means that those who have not received privileges in the past will receive them in future. Following on the Otaki Commission >’ was found that many country towns wure in the same position. As a result the Urban Farm Lands Rating BUI has been brought down. This provides for the reclassification of lands in boroughs as: (1) Farm lands proper: (2> farm lands with potential huUding value, hut no immediate building value, and (3) all other rateaMe property such as building lands, etc.