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Ph 2--PORT PERRY STAR, THURS. OCT, 10th, 1963 ASSESSMENT and TAXATION By SID CHANDLER A friend of mine jokingly tells of going for a drive with a local young man and the only place at 'which he stopped was a service) station to get some free air. This may seem a strange way to open a short topic on the above subject. However it is a fact that very few things in this world are free.. " Thus it was the cost of ser- vices, i.e. roads, schools, ete. which in the evolution of local | government in Ontario resulted in the Assessment Act and our present system of municipal taxation. At this time of the year we adults are again reminded of our obligation to the munici- pality in which we live by the Property tax, as it is some- times called, is the source of revenue for local government and services provided by this body, the county, and also that | portion of school costs not 19 DAYS in EUROPE (OCT. 1st - FEB. 29th) $312. - ROUND TRIP at: Four Seasons Travel(Oshawa) 728-6201 . 57 KING E. ¢ ED GED |) () GEE) GED GD ED {) GD) GE GST {) SD { _( Sab Xray Notice Of HYDRO INTERRUPTION Wednesday, October 16, 1963 12:45 - 4:15 p.m. | PORT PERRY VILLAGE Your co-operation is appreciated 'A. T. COX, Chairman, Oct. 10 Hydro Commission ~ "FABULOUS JUNGLE FURNITURE SALE Our Store is so crowded it looks like a Jungle Every Stick of Furniture must be moved and fast. Merchandise ordered at the Montreal Furniture Show 2 weeks ago is arriving daily. EVERTHING SLASHED" IN PRICE FOR QUICK CLEARANCE Chrome Kitchen Chairs, Strong and Sturdy. : Jungle Clearout ...... nies $2.97 Lovely 5 pe. Kitchen and Dinette Suites Real Big Reductions, as low as ........ $34.73 Nylon Frieze Platform Rockers ............. $29.95 Chrome Hi-Chairs ......... CAREC: $7.88 Floor Covering, Wall to Wall ................ per ft. 23¢ 2 Pc. Modern Chesterfield Suites, Foam Cushions ...........c..o..iewee from $97.00 Spring Filled Crib Mattresses ............. oe $5.88 2 Pc. Davenport Suites, Hurry ............ $86.00 Smooth-Top Quilted Mattresses, Better Quality, Less than 14 Price .....cooceeinine $27.88 HURRY DOWN, WHILE SELECTION IS LARGE. MANY MORE ITEMS ALL SLASHED WILSON FURNITURE 20 CHURCH ST., OSHAWA | ing gradually for the past num- covered by provincial grants; the latter, of course, are in the inverse ratio to the amount which can reasonably be raised locally. Costs of living and all con- sumer goods have been i nun ber of years, consequently costs. of municipal administration, services, schools, ete., have risen accordingly. customary assessment notices. | | 1 mills,~then the tax will be 80,- Property assessment is the | basis of real estate taxation and Lis directly related to the value i of property. Naturally a per- | "son with a large or valuable home, farm or business will pay a larger share of the local taxes than one with a small or less valuable property. No person wants to pay more than his (or her) share of taxes, so an assessor's work is to equit- ably apportion the taxation by a fair assessment of all pro- perty in his own municipality and as far as he possibly can] have an equitable relation to assessment in other municipali- ties in the same county. If some discrepancies do occur be- tween the various townships, i ete., in the county then an equal- | ization of the total assessments ' of each municipalities is made | by the county to arrive at what is known as the total equalized | assessment of the county. In local taxation the taxes are | | mainly based on the previous | year's local assessment, with some exceptions for new build- | ings. However the county taxa- | tion is based on the local as- | sessments made two years pre- | vious--that is 1961 assessment is equalized by County Council in 1962 for purpose of rating in 1963, and so on. Mill rates are confusing to] some people, a mill being one, thousandth part. of a dollar (or a tenth of a cent). The amount: of tax paid on a piece of pro- perty~is the assessed value of the property in dollars multi- plied by the tax rate in mills. Hence if a property is valued at $1,000. and the mill rate is RO 000 mills- or $80.00. In order to arrive at a mill® rate it is necessary to have an estimate of expenditures of all; boards and bodies, ete. for the! vear and divide this sum by the total assessment of the muniei- mill rate, when multiplied by. each of the individual assess- ments and then totalled, will re- required for the year. --_--X-- - Obituary- MELBOURNE FRANCIS WHITE Melbourne F. White--a teach- er at Toronto Central Technical School for thirty-one years un- til retirement in 1961--died sud-" | i { 1 Hospital on Saturday, Septem- ber 28th. Since retiring, he had been living in Arizona and at his summer home in Bala" where he had been the Muskoka | District representative of a Toronto real estate company. . He was educated at a rural public school in Cartwright Township, Durham County, and at Port Perry High School. In 1917-18 he attended the Faculty of Education at Queen's Uni- | versity following which he was | a public school principal at 1 Belleville and assistant-princi- | pal of Memorial Public School in Hamilton, "ily After a few years as princi- | pal of continuation schools at! Grand Valley and Tottenham, he graduated in Arts at Queen's | and in 1925 he joined the staff of Uxbridge High School." In 1930 he was appointed to the, Toronto..Central Technical! School "where he taught until retirement. REY He was a Past-Master of Ze- redetha Lodge No. 220° (Ux- bridge) and a member of High Park United Church. In 1923, he married Verna, Wallace of | Greenbank, Ontario. Joseph F. White, B.Sc.--is an | honors graduate of Toronto University School of Engineer- ing. and is now President of Electronics Design Associates | Toronto. Besides his widow and son,: he is survived by a brother, Dr. | Lloyd White, a former teacher | and member of the Toronto Bd. | of Education; a sister, Mrs. | Olive Beacock, and another bro- | pality, the resulting figure, ori - sult in the amount of money denly in Toronto East General; A son-- |' ther, Ernest White, both of Port Perry. He was pre-deceased by his parents, the late Francis White and Selena Mills; 1943. During the failure of the Irish potato crop in the 1840's, his paternal grandpar- ents -- #'homas and Elizabeth White -- crossed the Atlantic! from County: Cavan to New York orf one of the old-time a brother, Earl; and a sister, Grace, in| sailing vessels, After learning the milling business there, Thomas White brought his wife and son, James, overland to Millbrook where he- built a grist-mill. © When his family became larger,- he turned to farming south. of Blackstock, The Rev. C. G. 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