DASSESSMENT COURT.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2543, 1 March 1877, Page 3

DASSESSMENT COURT.

PABifTil.-

Captain Fraser, Judge of the Assessment Court,,.sat at the Parawai schoolhouse to-day to hear, objections to the Parawai Assessment List. Mr Miller appeared 1 ;For the' Parawai Board, and Messrs Vernon and Day, the Board's raluator and secretary, were also in attendance;'

W. : Tiisley, allotment and house at Paray?ai, near .the booms. Valued at £14,_valae ;~ The objector, .W. Tiisley, said that the Eroperty did not amount to 1£ acres, and c had only about- one-third of an acre cultivated. He was rated at over £10 per acre, which was "excessive. He could not get over £3 per year for it. and he did not see why he should be rated for £14. There was no road to it, and tlie house erected on it was only a oneroomed cottage, and was scarcely fit to live in..l , s • : -,-••■■' Mr Miller said.that as there had been no road to Tiisley's property before this year he had never, been rated, but now the Board had cut through the hill, and. it was only fair that he Bhould pay rates, . .

Mr Yernon.said that £14 was a fair valuation^ The buildings were not very good, but there was a road to the property. The annual value would be between £10 and £12 per acre. - Mr StiUell said that the property was worth £14 per year now that the road was cut through the hill.: J . ; ■■■ Mr Lloyd said: that he knew nothing of the value of the land, bjit. the cottage was not worth £1. ..—•.' Mr Vernon said he had rated Mr Tiisley for the same amount in the County valuation list-;;■ ; ;jJ.i " :

His Honor said that Tiisley had not proved that his land was not worth £14 per"year. "Hei would confirm the valuation. ■.-.-.,- y -■: ■ ■ ...;.■■.;-.' '■' •■' ■-■■■-■ This was all,the.rbusiness.