"The Bathos and tragedy of honourable men having their names blazoned abroad and dragged through the Courts because local bodies are compelled by law to take legal proceedings to protect rates that for the time being ratepayers cannot, through no fault of their own, pay, should be ended," declared Cr. J. A. Reilly at the meeting last week of the Awatere County Council when referring to the necessity for some simple method of keeping rates "alive" that are in danger of becoming statute-barred. He moved,, and it was carried, that the following remit bs forwarded to the Counties' Association: "That the Government be approached regarding the question of providing some simple formula whereby public bodies may legalise their claim to outstanding rates without the necessity of resorting to judgments through the Magistrate's Court."
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Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20827, 10 April 1933, Page 8
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