PAPANUI MEMORIAL HALL RATES.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20788, 23 February 1933, Page 5

PAPANUI MEMORIAL HALL RATES.

AVAIMAIRI COUNCIL DISCUSSION. A further stage in the question of the rating of tbe Papanui Memorial Hall Tvas reached lit last night's meeting of the Waimairi County Council. The Christchurch City Council forwarded a copy of a letter received from the' management committee of the hall, stating its inability to weet tho rates. Tljp City Council was prepared to And threelifths of the amount, and asked :Hc Waimairi County Council to find the remaining £23 Mb lOd. Cr. W. G. Chapman objected to any payment being mads by the county. He had searched, the title, aad had found tba,t in May, 1930, tbe section was owned by the eh aires an, councillors, and inhabitants of the Waimairi county, but in September, 1925, it was transferred to the Mayor, councillors, aul inhabitants of the City of Christchurch. ■ Consequently the council hal no further responsibility concerning the property, with the exception of the rata on the loan. According to Mr J. McCombs, . he said, tho ratepayers of tlw special rating district agreed to pay only interest and sinking fund on the loan, but they not been asked for anything in excess. "I wonder what Mr McCombs calls this demand?" asked Cr. Chapman. "I object to paying f penny. Lot them sue us." '■Or. Walker said utore good could be done by meeting the City Council. Ho was sure the City Couneil realised its roistaksi, and no doubt the whole matter could be cleared'up. Mft was sure tbe City would re-intro-duce the Bill cow it understood the positioner. Scott contended toll came withia tho City boundaries , the City took aver loek,*«toek, *ad b*r-

rel. Tho lialJ ,"Vr»S SVP Iwjfei v* propeftyi and therefore tfee •' -'-i 40 responsibility. -.The cowmisMPSLi# : 1t)23 had done no more thaw appSEtiGß , the liability'for tiu loan, V-c fr \ It was dccjtlofl., to vrifchiioic£ ment of the rates and. to obtain legaU;:\: opinipn concerning twreouneil'# * Whipped cream pW ao tSjiftyy )<*+ he weapon when robbers oi&terw..'*, %; store, and headed £«r tb©. cash L Mr? Mahel Bosnian, tho propHetF®Bßt, ; { i picked iip the pie and flpng it with >■ y groat force in the face of th® >-, \ The attack topk tlie men by iwrpripSj aud tho cream an inch deep on tfip top , s of the pie splattered over thpm. -Th«/ , group then dashed into tha (stw«t> Later a policeman arrcsfceti two jnfn , viiose clothing was spattered with,' V-; ** cream. ' i"\ 4