HAMILTON BOROUGH VALUATION.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1959, 27 January 1885, Page 3

HAMILTON BOROUGH VALUA TION.

TO THE EDITOR. q, B) ._The paragraph in your last issue ro the fcb<>\ c is so unfair and one -sided that I must ask you to publish my ver-ion of th« •tory. I will state it very briefly, as I intend to supply full particulars to the council as tn the cause of the delay. When I accepted the valuation I found that I was denied the facilities which had been given to all previous valuators by having the old valuation rolls for reference as to the names of owners, occupiers, aie.i, &c, but w.i-> informed that the council, by resolution, had . instructed the clerk to supply me with a list of the names of owners and occupiers of all the properties in the borough. Ihe h«t that wan given to me did not in a dozen instances give me the names of both oxvner and occupier ; sometimes the name of the owner w*h given, sometimes the occupier, bnt nothing to distinguish them. The lot wa^ so hopelessly misleading that I abandoned it, and after very great trouble succeeded in making out a roll which I thought satisfactory, but a revision of the roll by the borough maps still showed many errors, and 1 asked for an extension of time in older to rectify them. Ido not consider this would have injured the borough in any way, but it would take too much of your space to explain why. With reference to the concluding remarks of the piuagraph in question, re general belief, I will take no further notice of them than to state when the fitting time comes my roll shall bo exhibited in n public plan in order that the burgesses may compare the two. In conclusion, I must way that if the writer of tho article had taken thr trouble to have read my letter to the council he would not have written about me in the way he has done.— l am, fee '* T. C. Hammond