Gosh. I'm glad the Coffs Advocate took the time to paraphrase this press release from the office of the NSW Valuer-General, Mr. Simon Gilkes.

"Si", or "the Gilkester", as he's known outside public service office hours, has a reputation for producing pretty racy prose. Many a seasoned quasi-journalist has fainted dead away before even beginning to copy and paste from one of his executive summaries.

Without the calming influence of an irrelevant file photo and gentle introductory paragraph, such incendiary phrases as "slight decrease", "generally remained steady", and "moderate increase" could whip the populous into such a frenzy that they might take up torches and pitchforks to march on the Coffs town hall, only to discover we haven't got one.