ASSESSMENT NOTICES.
(To the Editor.) SlB, — In common with many others, I feel indignant to find all chance of appeal against this year's assessment hopeless, for on referring to the last issue of your paper I find yesterday (the 16th instant) was the last day for lodging notice of appeal, and I only received my assessment ticket this day, although it is dated the 12th instant, and I believe there are a great many who have not receired any. I should much like to know the cause of this. The only reason I can assign is that the assessment is bad, and that the Town Clerk was determined that very few should have a cnance*p prove it so. The assessment roll was -adopted by the Council on the 26th October, and yet no notices are issued before the 12th November ! Surely the Council is greatly to blame for this. They are badly in want of money, and yet they allow four or five months to pass away without collecting one penny of this year's rates. I think it high time there was a change, and in my opinion the aooner the duties of assessor and collector are combined, land separated from those of the Town Clerk, the better. I feel convinced, if the Town Clerk is spoken to about this matter, he will as usual be very funny (for lie is such a funny man), and tell you that the assessment roll has oeen lying at his office for inspection since it was passed bj the Council ; but- 1 think there »Te a great many ratepayers will agree with me when I say it is rety difficult to find his office open. I contend that the serving of these notices is -one of his duties, and there is no reasonable excuse .can be put forward why thtse notices should not have been served directly after the assessment was allowed by the Council. Ido trust that the ratepayers will take this matter up in such a way as will show the Council that they are not attending to the interests of the citizens in the way they promised to da.— l am, Ac., Appellant. November, 17, 1874.
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Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 409, 18 November 1874, Page 3
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