CITY RATES.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20920, 29 July 1933, Page 10

CITY RATES.

| .JP«J j INCREASED PAYMExW - j EFFECT 01 HEAVIER DR.US^ ! LEVIES. I I Provided that the decisioa of y» Christchurch City Council at &I meeting lasi. Tuesday right rera2 ing the general rate to be feS* for 1933-34 is not altered, the rate will be the same as last yecr. would be incorrect, hc.vevar to sume that the amo.nts that ti*. individual ratepayer will be caßrt upon to uay wili be the saajg tt for 1932-33. Owing principally *> the increase in the rates struck l» the Christchurch Drainage Bow which are collected by theS | Council, the total amount pa«S j by the individual ratepayer, in tmik i instances, will be greater thjm v | was last year. Jhc increase in fh. | rate in what is commonly refttrtf to as the big loan area" of jS Drainage Board is due to the rednr. tion in the valuations in the main county. On properties in the loaa areata ferred to the rate will amotST £ 5 6s 9d in respect of every £te of valuation, or an increase <## 7d as compared with Mf Superimposed on this increaseftS are increases in ihe rates intfl portions of the rural areas of 25 board within the city bouofaS [ Thus, in the Riccarton rural»s which includes properties in a JK of western Papanui (Bligh's rotfS Wairarapa road; on a proMfe valued at £3OO the rates this SI . will amount to 5s 9d. an inqg : of 7d as compared with 193J-Sfc%r ; rural Avon (North RichmondiM part of Papanui) on a properteM j the same value the rates ijm ! amount to 9s lid, as compared mm , 3s 4d. In rural Heathcote jffl Martins, Opawa, East LinmS ; Avonside, and Ncrtli LmwoodVuS ; property valued, at £ 1000, the aSs* will amount to 15s Bd. as cantuS: 1 with 13s Id in 1532-33. The mm, ; tion may be set out. taking the qjE> ; of a property in the Heathcote i 3 area, valued at £IOOO, as sa |K. ; ample, thus:— f *j* I iy33-34. IfIJSJB. \\ £ s. d. £7l . i Big loan area $| rate . . 5 6 9 »4$ . I Rural Heathcote . m • j rate .. 015 3 0 Vi% '. Totals .. 62 5 Tvt'\ | i Although there has been tnJgfe ! crease in the rate levied by mtI I Waimakariri River Trust it hm.) ' | slight that it will be noticeable pofii ■ j on properties with a high vaJnMiy The fire rate shows a redapHillF \ | and for a property valued far iwk' " provements at £SOO, is 3s P compared with 3s 8d in 193M&W , The hospital levy shows Will " I crease, and will be £1 Is TOfnfft I j Dropertv valued at £IOOO, as«M§| I j pared with 19s 8d in 1933-331 -|||| :