RATE.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume XXIV, Issue 2138, 26 March 1897, Page 2

RATE.

To ihe Editor

Sir, —Would you kindly grant nee space in y«n»r valuable p»per to pn t-tar fttfainnt tlio high handed action of ihe Akaro* County Council in issuing a b«tob of SrimtionnpM ag itist whr-t are trnvd defaulting ratepayer*, though tbey h.ve hi»d no accounts rendered for the umounte sued tor. ]o my "hkk I «r« for the P'dVty nuin oE 3-i 4d, <*.i [\ 10 par e«nt •iddwd, and coft of summons I2h Bi. Surely r»r>y Mjnsihle r't*pay»r knows that tho Count il us h puMie body must have their r-'t»n. hut nobody ever tliir.k-r of Rattling >i» account m til it is rendered, *od I ceit»inly wag unaware that I was indebted to thy County Council until I received «i summons Jrom Constable Ky«n. If the County Clerk will render me an account I shall cheerfully pay it but in thrt evot t of my fit'pnding Crurfc f nhalt ceitdnly -xpect my espensof. Why not have a fifted d>iy annually for th» payment of local nttfv, and why not tV Council collr>cr the wbola of the local rates ar one shot? It would bo a great convi-i i -no ■•■ to hmj-1 rflt-piyers irj rh« ootlyi g di«tiict«. In my case I must w»we my time and go tt-n miles to « Pokt Office for a po»t»l no c, which moans a trebin rtlHj whereas n m»n with a Bink account can bit down and wiire out a eh- q >--.

lf fie Connci' will do as I suggest, fix a rule- -lay and penri a collector, I don't think thera wool! be a defuniting rnt-pnymr in the conn y. Thnnking you. Mr Editor, for encr<> filling on yoor valuable spoce. — I sm, Yours *t«.

F. GREAD