RATING AND LAND VALUATIONS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 185, 15 April 1915, Page 2

RATING AND LAND VALUATIONS.

THE : <.t : POM E (1 E^TToSfS.' WET.LJSStON, V,.»ril 1,"/. Following are the loading Stems-in t!ie recommendations §m biniyej• t o il\< Minisfor' by the Commission ei'"n'??i<s'ti\g or Messrs. E. A. Campbell, T. 1. Martin, a>nd J.,.G-. Rutherford, appointed rp ¥ Inquire into matters relating to the valuation of land. in.Kow, Zealand-—.. -...>,.. Tliat the Assesracut Court Hrov.ld consist of a permanent president for the whole Dominion who shall be :• member of tin* legal profession and of an assessor appointed by Hie Crovenvment, either for the ..wiiolei .JDoirunion or for each provincial district, and a-i assessor appointed bv :; tli,o ? -r ; aJepa,yers of the local governing, district, t|ie .roll .of which has. been should be a person other than a stipendiary magistrate reguLu;hv., exercising civil or criminal jurisdiction. f

That on the revision of a roll at lea;:» fourteen days' public, notice of the sitting of the Assessment be given.

That whore an owner .objects to a valuation affecting the interests of any other owner the Valuer-General sliali send to the latter owner a copy of the objection, and give him at least seven days' notice of the sitting of the Assessment Court,

That~it be enacted that refusal by an objector when appearing before the Assessment Court to sell or offer his property to the Government at the D.e> partment's valuation shall no.t bo deemed an admission by the objector of the correctness of that" VaTMtibiV.' That where farming land has been sub-divided into building allotments in advance of the market'arid 'continues to be used for purely farming purpose?, it shell be vf>] -ed on farm value bas»?.

That where rropcrti.es in a .givcji, street are mainly used for resident! purposes, hvt a fssw properties jri 'the? street have been purchased or are for business pv.rposes, the .owners of the properties in the street which , are used as residences and for which ;h.<«;> is no demand for'businessl-.p'.ir-p- ses, should not'be" assessed-at a business site value. "-'■. \ ■ ■:■": '■.' >- ■■■'.''■■'.-

That where a. standard unimproved value of a country district is to bo thrived at it he fixed by several district valuers acting together with the- assistance of the local valuer ,appQi:itcd by the ratepayers of the district and pail by the local frd that in fixing such :\ standard value by ro.fe.ren("" > tosales-of improved f.'vnn<t.'lilv' oral allowance be m?d?> Iti resepct : ;t

improvements thereon. That section ?.0 : of the Valuation of Land A.ct. IPOS, be amended in. the-di-rection of malting iillowarces ti,» lessees in respect'of the detrimental \&hie of any restrictions in'the leas? which provent the lessee from putting tho land to the use to which it i-s be-:!: adapted at the date of valuation, and in .respect of ;-r.y onerous unfulfilled ?.ondHions to which the lessee is liable under the

lease. . That Section 31 of the Valuation of - Land Act, 1908, -be amended by providing, that an owner obj-.r'ting to (he decision of the Assessment Court sha!! state the unimproved value :it \\luc?i he values his property, and his value of tire improvements, and. that the 00/ernment have the right to purchase tlie land at the owner';; unimproved value, leaving'the value of-the improvements to bo ascertained by arbitration. That the owner oT BCverar<i6ntigiio';s properties shall hare the right; if ;lie .so desires, to offer all. of them to riiO Government under section 31; in one offer, notwithstanding tlu't there arc several different ratable occupiers of such properties. .