HOSPITAL LEVIES.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 125, 27 May 1914, Page 7

HOSPITAL LEVIES.

A mOTKST I-'RO.\r XORTITrOTK. At a special meeting of the NorthcoLe Borough Council l.i-t night, to deal with i the estlimUiti for the on-uiiig year, the j Mayi>r (Mr. Coorge I'iaserl said he h:ul inifM'd t.liat thr rates could have been reduced by at lejt-t "li. in the .£ in order to prepare the way for a drainage loan. i However, Uio Hospital ;in,i Charitable I A ill Board's aasefism-ent of .cms o/'i (an I increase »f nearly doublo the amount I paid year), made onv -reduction in j r:vte,< impossible. th<- hospifcil and charitable aid rate amounting practically to 3d. in the £ o n the nnmr.il value of the borough. This inonvise | t ;ul, of course, been brought about hy the. increased (iowinmait capital valuation-? ( t:iO9.2SS as acrainst the previona valuation of j £160.546h Thr Hoard's rate on I the new valuation of 2-13.1. in ! the £ (the same as Mruck the i previous year) a jMymcnt of £10S \5/i, ac against XlOll 2.T, on the- previous Talnation. I Councillor A. K. (ireenelade said that with popular representation on the I Board, the ratepayers confidently looked ! forward to some rrduction in the Board's j expenditure. But apparently, tini der exiting conditions, it was. a ; %'am liope ■.!> look for any i rodtictioii. Xntwithftandin-tr that the valuation,! of the v.i.r«ru* districts had increased from j:342il£S<i to fiT.STit.----j C's-4, no rejtiition in the r-.itf hod l>een I niaiif , . an.] the I<'vv of 2-l.'W. produced I f24.2fil lfi.'4. ;i» -.igam-t Cil.OfiO M the I i revioiii* year. Tiip niti , .- witp sul>iid:~ej , bv-lhe CoierTinn-m to the extent of 2Af iti the .€. :lihl tiie f im.ii.-.l i-\[h-ndituri' for ihe y.'.ir JLtil.-i-tU. J^raiiint i:i<t year. :i M increase of about I'S.OOO fur one year. 11.- lielievinl the liini" h.ul arrive.l when ;h>' <lvH«-rnment should take over tlir liospitjl and charit- . a-lili 1 aid :i.|Tiiini-= rrrition. and relievn the io. al ratef. Hie local bodies on the northern shoro,« nf the h-.irbour were contribntins about £2.ru>it per annum to i the Auckland 7Tti-s.pital and f'haritaWe j Aid BonH. an,! imrr reeeivmg very little Vne.fit. i On the motion of Cγ. R. H. P. Hopkins it wa? -unammoufiv re«viv<»d To fend a remit + o rhf con'eTertcc of ;*ie 'Devonport. Tnk.iTMina. r.irkenViea.-; aivi Korthcofr Pnunoi's on the matter.