COLLECTING THE RATES.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18346, 1 April 1925, Page 8

COLLECTING THE RATES.

AMOUNT OUTSTANDING, £IO,OOO. Conscientious ratepayers who wished to give the City Council a good starton its financial year—as well as avoid the 10 per cent, penalty for slackness in paying up—handed in a total of £33,011 12s 6d to the city rate collector yesterday. Under the circumstances the collector is satisfied with the amount received, but would rather have taken a larger sum, as. from this morning, the penalty will operate. These rates are from April Ist, 1924, to March 31st, 1925 the city's financial year. A large proportion of the money paid in yesterday was received by post. Mr J. K. Maedouald, the collector, gives it as his opinion that yesterdaywas the quietest "last" day" for years. Yesterday he was fared with the collection of £-13,449 7s lid, so that there are rates outstanding totalling over £IO.OOO. One ratepayer, said Mr Macdonald, made a habit of paying a sum in advance on his next year's rates as well as the rates for the current year, lie had made that practice for four years, and he considered it was an excellent example to the tardy ones.