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Page 34 - ... rates and taxes, and tithe commutation rent-charge, if any, and deducting therefrom the probable average annual cost of the repairs, insurance, and other expenses, if any, necessary to maintain them in a state to command such rent...
Page 123 - ... the expiration of the term for which his predecessor was appointed shall be appointed for the remainder of such term, and...
Page 160 - The southern main outfall commences at a point on the north side of Cook's River, near Botany Bay, and receives the drainage from Alexandria, Waterloo, Erskineville, Newtown, and portions of the Surry Hills district. The inlet-house, into which the sewage passes, is fitted with the latest machinery for straining the aludge, and for ejecting the fluid after nitration.
Page 99 - The annual value of rateable land which is improved or occupied shall be deemed to be a sum equal to the estimated full, fair, average amount of rent at which such land may reasonably be expected to let from year to year, on the assumption (if necessary to be made) that such letting is allowed by law. less the amount of all rates and taxes, and a deduction of twenty pounds per centum for repairs, insurance, and other outgoings.
Page 164 - The outfall is situated at Merewether Gulf, some distance south from Newcastle. Two gravitation sewers which branch from the main, one at Merewether and the other in the city of Newcastle, have been completed and transferred to the control of the Hunter District Water and Sewerage Board, also the reticulation sewers for the areas capable of being drained by gravitation. The first transfer was made in July, 1907, and the particulars of cost, revenue, and expenditure to 30th June, 1912, are shown below:...
Page 9 - AN ACT for the BETTER GOVERNMENT of HER MAJESTY'S AUSTRALIAN COLONIES. (5th August, 1850.) WHEREAS by an Act passed in the sixth year of the reign of Her Majesty, intituled "An Act for the Government of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land...
Page 57 - ... estimated at the fair average value of unimproved land of the same quality held in fee-simple in the same neighbourhood...
Page 13 - Local governing bodies are required to levy a general rate of not less than one penny in the pound on the unimproved capital value of land, and have power also to levy certain other rates on either the unimproved or the improved value. The extent of their rating powers is described in that portion of this Year Book which treats of local government.
Page 148 - gross valuó " is defined as "the annual rent which a tenant might reasonably be expected, taking one year with another, to pay for a hereditament if the tenant undertook to pay all usual tenants...
Page 84 - The annual value of land and premises (ie other than "vacant land") is estimated at three-fourths of the gross annual rental at which the whole would let for a term of seven years, or...