GOVERNMENT VALUATIONS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2516, 1 June 1909, Page 5

GOVERNMENT VALUATIONS.

OBJECTIONS IN INVERCARGILL

[Per Press . Association.]

INVERCARGILL, May 31. The Government valuation for Invercargill, which created such ,a stir among local property-owners some time back, came before the Assessment Court to-day. When the date for lodging objections had passed, there were about seven hundred objections at the Department’s office, but a revision of the valuations resulted, this number being reduced to between three and four hundred. Further heavy reductions were also . made. This morning, when the list was called over at the Assessment Court, more than half tliev objectors failed to add personal support to their protests, with the result that the valuations or amended valuations were sustained. The sorious work of the Court was thus reduced to a little over a- hundred objections from sixty or seventy objectors. Ihe Court during tlie day heard ten objections, in each of which tlie protest, was mainly with the object of having the unimproved value reduced. In eight cases the unimproved value was reduced by the Court, and tlie amount of reduction was added to the. value oi improvements' on properties in nearly every case 1 . Two decisions were reserved 'ln one case the point was raised as to whether tlie valuations had been made in .accordance with the Government Valuation of Land Act, the con tention being that tlio man who had made the assessment was not a valuer of reputed local knowledge. tins point was reserved for argument at a later stage.