Rating on Unimproved Values.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7765, 17 March 1905, Page 2

Rating on Unimproved Values.

IiATEI'A YEHS W3FEAT 1. PHOJ'OSAL. The poll of ratepayers to decide whether the system of on unimproved values .should be adopted in i Uio borough of New Plymouth was held on Thursday. The central ' polling'booth wns at The Town Hull, where the Town Clerk olliciated as returning (i IliciAir 10. A I'm it n Lie was in charge of the JOnst Ward booth, and ill' M. Fleetwood presided nt the booth (or iho West Ward. | Tile pi■ '■ opened at (I a.m.. but i during tlie morning very few votes were recorded, mid it was not until ] !close on closing time that the liguivs assumed anything like reasonable proportions. There was nothing apr proaclring excitement at any time dining the day. The advocates of ; Ihe .system had done nil they could . to stimulate interest in the ques- , lion, but .still on the whole vhj poll was u light one, on'y 481 of the voters on t'he .Mayor's mil. who number 1210,, exercising their privilege. In the absence of the Mayor, wild was out of town, the «lnclurnlioit of the poll was mudc by the |jleputy Returning Ollicer ut a quarter to 8 p.m.|. in the presence of a • Ismail crowd of ratepayers. The nnn luiiceriient (hat the adoption of the ' jtinimproved system had been nega- ' tivid by such a substantial mnjor--1 ity as 313 to 167 came somewhat as ' a siirprist', althougli llie defeat of tho " proposal liud been almost a I'ore- ' gone conclusion. 'l'he figures for each ;war:l were against the nV'\v system, -' the majorily in the Central Ward " alone being 311, Following are do- • ails the voting ' Mai. For. Agst. Inf. Agst West Waril "."i ."tl 0 15 Kast Ward 81 101 2 20 'Central Ward <lB 1.">9 2 111 ; Totals 107 'II il I 140 2 I Tt is ]jrovided in the Act that no r further gioil taken for a 1 p.'iio<l of three years.