SETTLERS BEARING BURDEN.
NO RATES PAID BY TOREST SERVICE. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) THAMES, Saturday. The State Forest Service pays no rates in respect of the lands it occupies. The settlers of Puriri, at a meeting on Friday, asked Mr. A. M. Samuel, M.P., to endeavour to have the law altered. It was stated that of 263,000 acres in the Thames County, 90,000 were locked up in State forests or Crown lands, while 140,000 acres were unoccupied. Nevertheless, the County Council had to maintain .70 miles of roads. The ratepayers on the flat area, occupying some 10,000 acres, were heavily rated to keep these roads in repair. Mr. Samuel said that Puriri was not the only district that had to face these problems. He was of the opinion that I the Forest Service Department should contribute in rates to relieve the settlers. He promised to bring the matter before Parliament.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 64, 17 March 1930, Page 4
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