TUESDAY JULY 3,1900.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 14, 3 July 1900, Page 2

TUESDAY JULY 3, 1900.

THB fjeUlers on the-Wrik&fajfl Estate are to be c^ngratnlatedfl I the activity they hare Bhown j I matters of public Satem*. '^ ■ refer especially to fcbe Qe^jjl formed Association. In the foil I cliff district the new arrfvaJsfifß agitating for tslephoue coqimttH cation with the larger centreg'aljß are going 'about the iahjeei ia9 practical manner. If is «Bj>eeiajjH gratifying in tho face of the ! fi|B febafc the more recent eettf ere hjJI yet ba-1 liUle or no timetolfH imbnrse tbemse}y«s from tb|B initial outlay. With_a a^tjll master at Morren arid a telegrjl station or^ a- telephone burJH there, tije neyr arrivals will hiM obtained for thomgelves anflitaß follow residents, benefits |H will bo a boon "to the .pijfl both Booially and commercial!™ TiiQ subject of te present artjjH is t one whicfy '^a'Sr'AeaocialH broached come time ago, i@|fl whfch w* wjJfß fortnight <^> t^ tfie'atf opiiotf i'i|fl of I&iiag on Unitaprov«d Vajgfj We Jbroaght the nmtter* tefS fcha Boroogh wftepeyerg^an^B for a trifling acafd^t^uftflß had $h» pleasurV of i^ing the|9 int«nfto d^ onr baist to the 19 ofr^fntte county. Thg ojjß tioHsble " on»-third must JM fifciots haa now be«n ♦litninatM and if a majority vote form proposal it k» carried. The prcU Bating on Unimproved "ValTjfl||M iB not faultlees, tout one etop;9H fcirao mug* b* fcak#p, and IS Hoqba has before Hot the pre JM time an Act amending j« onsrinai. The principle of 4lj|B ing extra rates for imgreveffllß is tinfair, and H te Ja«re tmfaiM the County that in the Bojrof|H In the !aU«r all a man's maybe concentrated in a fjH imildiag on ft quarter-acre HfjH or leas, and 4be xmindproved y^^H r of that are* &$ %« Onl /^B of t«j«^J V |»- the Co|H o^iandiejat^et^^ yatoe o |9 land, and the aeigi&ourtog l|M to a certain extent, and to e fsM them employs labour -Wi^h^^H butiai money among Brtigan^^B others. pro#tg to |IH «xt.est, and yet the value ofcf^B property liei, not by any cjeanJ^H tho outbuildings and otb«r^H provwneaig, but in what tbol^H Will prodQee. In the towii^^H laud i§ merely a tneaos to aI V r |fM a stand vrherenpon to li|^| thousands of. poundi wor&fj^H property, while in the coa||^H the quality of the land is m '^B more to be considered t^lf^l position, and the improveni.<|H ar© ptit op to help inoreaee*»j^H prodttbtivenoga of the the better disposal of its prod«^H Whj, therefore, lax ihe &*||^J for His improvements ? case dhGrovernment settlera^^^H fch'e improvements reqtrif6£i||BH made, ajicl the laacl and * m P||H

Iments &**• &** • chance : to retam lome of the capital; out£%y, we kofd tix * fc n0 t *** <;i< i n f whatsoever thontd. be enforced. \ White the settler is 7 Jraproyinff _ gtate-oi^ned land^nd sinking 1% I .jqgpital in improvements which vrill never become his awn, l^erty, he shonld be freeVffom all taxes, *i? 4 given *3 muck Chance as possible of reaping the Jsraward, to which fche Industry afld capital he invested ijti tKe land, entile him. If these viewa ure *t all reasonable, .how /can there*! be much differejc^-, N bf opinion as to the rnifairneßa'of taxtog improvements ? Duriag the de»bate on fehei Bill in the Bkaae in 1896, the Leader of the Opposifipi(' : fmokly admitted the fairness of the incidence, of taxation, ; eB pcci*lly in agrioaltur*i3Uetricto. aad already the folSowing Oountie.^ have adopted the solisnie : Caeviot. Eokwngft, Inangfchftft, and Wai- « wa. a la Pdhiatua the Bdroug' earned it »*<s *&» County rejects it, Theqaescion was subxnitteci to; tbe^iollowing Counties ai/ rajeotod : Pahitan*, Tauranga, Eaglsrn aad Stratford. It is moat jnfcorsstinf to aote, however, that In every iastap.ee it w*s^ dae to j apathy *nd w*nt of inUt^eet on j the part of the vo'tew,; ta«j majorities were oTer-wheloaing, ! bat one third of f . the rate- j pa^rs on the ~r6tt Jailed j to record their , vdtes. ■ This which proved such * a "etambli&g block, wae rery rightly "wraoved by th« ♦* Local GQvernmant Voting Bsforni Act, 5 1899,' r Claase 2, which provides that a\i qnesfcions aabmitted to the" burg^se* or are to be 8ottl»d hjtk simple majority.' Up to the present," twenty-three^ diatricts hare Toted on th® question, am! under the now A.afc twenfcyou.vrould have carried ty. In | Picsoa au'i Woolaton Borough B',8 ', ftlon* mi it dcejefiied. We hope | fiat tha aew- s^r rivals iii otir , mtdet Lake actioa"3hortiy in fciite important matter. [Sii2c« tae above wafl in type, ir« hsire raeeived »» exti i act from Major Steward's B*tiag oa Un- | improved Ya.l uo« Aet?A.mendment Bill, now before the" House. - It appsarg ia our " Parliamentary M column,]