es Generally On Domestic Properties In Tauranga raised by Over 30 Per Cent

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXVI, Issue 14712, 2 July 1948, Page 3

es Generally On Domestic Properties In Tauranga raised by Over 30 Per Cent

-rriT DECIDES ON INCREASES IN, FLAT W KATE WATER CHARGES

'TMuranffa Borough Council, at a special meeting to The 8 for 1943.49, decided to increase the nsider to® ® to 7 and 24-64 d, in the £. The amalgatesfromoa . } loS pital rate and two conversion ated rate (8— frQnl 5 an( j 5_64d. to 6 and 50-64 d. in the £; aas) isinw. “ f 1 6 _64d in the £ remains the same with ine watß 4 Ifl 1 fl a t ra te charges. The drainage rate is reduced e 22-64 d in the £. . Estimates provide during the coming year ior reMruf ns 141 and the expenditure is estimated at ip l The decision to transfer £9,000 from the Electricity ;8 > x, “ « f 75a to be found and the increase in the rates c “ aßt ‘?a!tat in the'seneral Account of £2,980, leave acL • a p Tce ing to include additional works a further £.1700 to the streets f dale of £11,532, increased this debit to approximately 5,000.

I rrpased from 5s for first tap fed- urinals increased from £1 I shop hose taps remain at £1 baths or showers m hernia Smum of £8) increased irom £1 I each' baths or showers m L' or’ boarding houses mld from 10s to £1 each, Sinum charges per year for ! extraordinary water supplv Increased as follows. Class i and service stations, tacfand manufacturing establishI including fish works, non I; works, timber mills, cement t Creased from £2 a year f Class B (bakeries, restaurI an d eating houses chemist dentist rooms, fish shops It gardens and nurseries and troughs) increased from £1 lr to £2 10s. W A Carswell moved that. LL for 1948-49 be increased sS in t|re £ to 6id. and an dment was moved by Ci E. it. that the general rate be mL| by 2d. _ peaking to his amendment, Cv L stated that the council [id reduce its overdraft and favour to build a reserve with L to do other works m the j U gh. To increase the rates I a little would not, he added, i cover administrative costs. I expressed the view thcit the should have been increased ago, and added that during the years when works were re’gd a reserve could have been

payers would, he thought, be behind the suggestion that the council must increase the rates to keep in tune with the increased costs which would be more than the amount rated for.

Cr Carswell withdrew his motion in favour of the amendment. Tire Mayor (Mr L. E. Wilkinson) stated (hat it was not right i.o say that Little work had been done during the war and that the rates should have been increased before this. He stated that the council had invested £20,000 in loans to help win the war. The reason for the council being in its present position was because it had spent money where it was needed most.

The Mayor voiced the opinion that the council could not possibly spend the full amount of the Estimates within the next nine months and if the rate was raised there would be a big credit at the end of the year. The present debit balance was only a temporary situation. The borough, he added, had managed its affairs quite well. The Mayor considered that the increase by 2d in the general rate was too much.

fed. Sporting the amendment, Cr L. fees pointed out that there had |no increase in the general .rate |e borough for many years. Icosts had increased over £5.009 the council could net maintain het improvements programme Jut increasing the rate. He exfed the hope that this year’s jamme would tend to clean up [dds and ends in the borough, |when the special rates were [red for such proposals as rage, water works and Jordan | the council would be able to ye this impost. en the borough was revalued, punch, he stated, could perhaps le the general rate. The rate-

When put to the meeting the resolution increasing the" general rate by 2d was carried. The Estimates were approved and adopted. Among the items on the Estimates, provision has been made for the following works during 194849; —Street works £11.532; Public Library and Reading Room £1000; construction and maintenance of basketball courts £100; borough gardens and parks £1500; band subsidies £300; conveniences on Strand £850; Otumoctai Commission expenses £25: civic receptions £125; Mayoral robes £SO; preparation of playing area (Jordan Park) £150; upkeep and development of college recreation ground £500; purchase of area linked with general recreation area between Sixth and Eleventh Avenues £2500; widening Grey Street £650: additions to women’s rest room £360; and Tauranga South recreational hall £6OO. Hi the Ahbattoir Account it was pointed o-.a that there was a disparity of £730 ami the question oh raising - the slaughtering fees to balance the account was ’eft to the Abattoir Committee.