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Return relative to the Adoption by Districts of the Rating-on-land- value System.

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Adopting 'oil. Rescinding Poll. Hate per Pound levied, 19(10-7. No. aud District. Date. For. Against. ARainst. Capital Value. Annual Value. Remarks. Date. For. <i. 2} 33 4 4 24 h to d. d. 1. Akitio County 2. Avenal Borough 3. Awatere Road District 4. Balclutha Borough 5. Blenheim Borough 6. Buller County 7. Campbelltowii Borough 8. Caetlepoint County 9. Cheviot County 10. Christchurch City .. .. Feb. 16, 1905 .. Dec. 7, 1904 .. May 3, 1905 .. July 7, 1909 \ . June 17, 1903 .. Sept. 10, 1904 .. Sept. 14, 1904 .. Nov. 8, 1905 .. Oct. 6, 1898 .. June 30, 1902 112 48 146 60 224 101 56 105 596 32 10 8 33 64 84 86 45 41 512 I • • '.'. i Separate rate may be struck later. And 10s. sanitary fee per house. 2| 4 3 And special rate 4Jd. unimproved value on part. .. Also sanitation fees from 8s. 7d. to £1. ft" 3J per cent. , 3} to §j 2£ per cent 11. Devonport Borough Eastbourne Borough (see 84). 12. Kketahuna County 13. Eketahuna Town District .. 14. Feilding Borough .. 15. Gore Borough .. Oct. 30, 1900 .. Feb. 1, 1900 .. Feb. 1, 1900 .. April 16, 1901 .. July 7,1901 .. 356 149 '.'. 268 .. 122 109 June 6, 1904 .. 176 415 313 Also fifty-three various rates on special loans. Unimproved value adopted when part of county. 21 14 56 '.'. 67 •• ft 7, 6, «nd 5 per cent. I 4 to 6 per cent. 4 1 16. Grey Lynn Borough .. Mar. 20, 1901 140 71 is -Iβ Also a water rate from minimum of 10s. to maximum of 6 per cent, on £40 (annual value); half-rates on land and buildings where water can be supplied within any part of water area. 17. Greymouth Borough .. Feb. 23, 1898 ■*4 18. Hamilton Borough .. Feb. 13, 1901 77 52 May 3, 1904 .. I 11C 148 1? 3 to 5 per cent, on part 7 per cent. 19. Hawera Borough Hobson County (see 83). 20. Hokianga County .. April 8,1903 .. Mar. 11, 1899 129 109 9 25 3 Unimproved value rate proposed only —rate not yet struck, 19th Ootober, 1906. 1905-6 rates. Special rates of Jd. and ljd. unimproved value on portion of district only. Town of Reefton, separate rates, Jd. capital value. Boatman Irrigation District, ljd. And maximum water rates. 2J 21. Hokitika Borough 22. Hunua Road District . .. May 5, 1901 .. April 5, 1899 212 60 53 2 2} 1 ,'.-. 23. Inangahua County 24. Invercargill Borough 25. Kairanga County .. 26. Karori Borough 27. Kawhia County 28. Linwood Borough 29. Lower Hutt Borough 30. Manawatu Road District .. 31. Maori Hill Borough .. May 14, 1898 .. June 5, 1001 .. Jan. 14, 1905 . . April 4, 1898 .. Nov. 21, 1905 .. May 30, 1901 .. Oct. 12, 1901 .. Jan. 6, 1900 .. Jan. 25, 1904 284 .. 386 142 93 96 276 ill 105 119 11 174 May 4, 1906 54 3 7 38 68 10 27 .. 300 462 Jif farthing 1 2 A Now included in Christchurch City. *m, .. Now in Kairanga County. 2d. annual value parts, South and East Wards 1J to 3 ..I .. i