WANGANUI ANXIOUS
EFFECTS OF URBAN LANDS RATING BILL HEAVY BURDENS FOR CITY From Our Oicn Correspond- c WANGANUI. Today. Wanganui has fewer people to the acre than any other large town in the Dominion, and consequently largre areas of unoccupied land. Thus the Urban Farms Lands Rating Bill is causing some alarm to the City Council, because if the Bill were to come into force a comparatively small business area would have to shoulder rates on over 100 miles of roads. 13 miles of tramways and other city expenses. At a meeting of the City Council last evening it was pointed out that if the Bill came into force speculators would promptly buy up land and use it for bee farms or poultry farms at small cost. On the other hand, a commission to review the lands would be a tremendous cost to the municipalities. The Prime Minister will be asked to withhold the Bill for one year and ihe Mayor, Air. W. J. Rogers, and the Town Clerk will go to Wellington today to confer with Government officials on the. matter.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 795, 16 October 1929, Page 6
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