RATES STRUCK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 149, 25 June 1932, Page 9

RATES STRUCK.

FOR WAITEMATA COUNTY.

REDUCTIONS IN TWO RIDINGS,

Rates for tho ensuing year fixed at the meeting of the Waitemata County Council yesterday slinw a reduction in two of the eleven ridings, while in the othey nine they are the same as in the previous year. The receipts from the rates are estimated at £50,000. In the Waipareira riding the rate struck showsa reduction of id, and iu Kaukapakapa riding -]d.

The chairman, Mr. W. A. Bishop, in commenting on the estimates brought before tho meeting by the clerk, Mr. C. A. Cawkwell, said that if they were carried out the council would be in a satisfactory position at the end of the year. Economy measures practised during the year had left the council in a Rood position to face the next 12 months. The sum of £2SOG had been saved in overhead and administration charges. There would be little or no road construction this year, as the prospect of obtaining Public Works grants was uncertain and the main highways vote for maintenance purposes had been reduced. The general and loan interest rates fixed were as follow, the amounts for the previou-s year being shown in parentheses:—

Wainui Riding.—Riding loan interest rate, ljd (lid); general rate, lid (lid) Takapuna, 2d (2d); lJd (lid). Titirangi, i? C }\ (lJd). Birkenhead, Id (la); Id (Id). Kaukapakapa, lid {Udl • u d - (I AV-' * umeu ' m (1Jd) ; « d <W. Mairetahi Jd (id); Id (Id). Waita-' kere, id did); Hd (lid). Waikumete, fn ( 1 K,, 1 ? (lid >" Pukeatua, 1 cLI (Id) ; lfd (lid). Waipareira, id (Jd); Jd (Id).

The hospital rate was struck at id over the whole of the county, the figure being unchanged from the past year chairman pointed out that the council had received no intimation from the Auckland Hospital Board as to what the y would be and he repeated his recently-expressed opinion that the levy should be paid from the Consolidated Mind At present it amounted to a land tax.

flie following items were included in tlie estimates of expenditure:—Wainui i'lonn' maintcnance °f main highways, 5 lnaintona nce of minor roads, J-'OO; maintenance of bridges, £350. Takapuna, £2251, £300, £100; Titi —; Birkenhead, £535, t' —' Kaukapakapa, £I<>2o. £400. —; Rmneu, £274G, £300, —; Mairetahi, vt.' ' £-00, —; Waitakere, £1944, *—; Waikumete, £914, £400, —; Pukeatua, £479, £150, £500; Waipareira, £1027, £550, —.