HAURAKI PLAINS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 16, 20 January 1933, Page 9

HAURAKI PLAINS.

ROADING AND RATING. (By Telegraph.—Olrn Correspondent.) THAMES, this day. The Hauraki Plains County Council met at Ngatea yesterday, Mr. W. Madgwick presiding. The application of Burnell Broß. ior permission to close a certain road in Turua township was left_ in the hands of the chairman to act in conjunction with the clerk of the Town Board.

Mr. F. Dyson, representative of the No. 2 District Highway Council, wrote with reference to the formation of the traffic control group now comprising the Thames, Coromandel and Ohinemuri counties, asking the Plains Council to join the group. The chairman reported having interviewed the other counties concerned. The matter will be deferred until further information is received from the Government as to the amount of the grant towards the inspector s salary. A lengthy discussion took nluce when a letter" from the Stratford County Council was read advising the council to place before its M.P. the desirability of the Government paying all farmers rates and waiving land tax. The opimon of the council was that a more equitable system of rating should be introduced to give relief from the burd«n of rates to all taxpayers. It "was decided, on the motion of the chairman to support the suggestion of-the Stratford Council, but to strongly urge the Government to take the matter of the taxation of rural lands in hand immediately, With a vie to reconstruction, so that the burde of taxation is more equitably distributed than at present.