RATING ON UNIMPROVED VALUES.
HASTINGS, April 25. Mr P. J. O'Regan addressed a meeting of 300 ratepayers last night on the question of rating on unimproved values. He referred to Hawke's Bay as the finest province in New Zealand. Yet it had only nine people to the square mile, while the Taranaki bush province had thirteen. "This scandalous state of affairs," he said, "is caused by large estates, and people being driven to the back country, while ,land served by the railway, ana teeming with potentialities, is practically depopulated." This could not be suffered to continue, and would not continue if the land monopoly was taxed out of existence. Tha speaker was accorded a hearty vote of thanks.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9075, 27 April 1908, Page 5
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118RATING ON UNIMPROVED VALUES. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9075, 27 April 1908, Page 5
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