HIGHER RATING.
‘ Aua-KLAND crrv COUNCIL. (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, June 15. Rates totalling 3s 115 d in the £, an increase of a. halfpenny on last year, were approved by: the Auckland City Council when the annual estimates were submitted by the Mayor (Mr Ernest; Davis). The increase is due wholly to a higher levy. imposed on the city by the Auckland Hospital Board. A deficit of £71,886 at March 31, 1937, was budgeted for, and to offset this there are outstanding rates, most of which, it is believed, can be collected, amounting to £157,901. Last year ended with a. deficit of £65,209, the year’s opening debit being £33,999. The council’s overdraft at March 31 of £79,284 was stated to be the largest for many years. Requests by council departments for appropriations were 'pruned so severely that, in the words of the Mayor, they have been given definite allocations of money to spend. The council issued instructions that allocations were not to be exceeded, nor were savings to be expended elsewhere._
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 208, 16 June 1936, Page 4
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