NO INCREASES PROPOSED

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22435, 23 June 1938, Page 17

NO INCREASES PROPOSED

RATES IN WAIMAIRI COUNTY ESTIMATES FOR SPECIAL MEETING ' No changes in the general riding rates are proposed in the estimates for the curernt financial year, presented last night to the Waimairi County Council. The rating proposed is estimated to yield £13,914, this yield, with last year’s, being the smallest since 1926. The council will hold a special meeting on Tuesday week to consider the estimates. , The following shows the proposed rate and estimated return in each riding.— Yield last Deficit or Rate, year. Surplus. £ £

A summary of estimated income and expenditure for all ridings showed an outlay of £30,757. Of this, £8037 was for general expenditure, £17,320 for ridings expenditure, and £5400 for reserves plant and other items. Credit balances at the beginning of the year, less outstanding general rates, were shown as £9300, and general income from licences and similar sources was shown as £7560. It was estimated that the general rates would bring in £13,885, leaving a deficiency on the year’s working of £l2. Changes in the special rates’ are proposed in two cases. The Elmwood Park special rate last year was l-16d in the £; this year it is proposed to reduce this to l-20d. A reduction of l-64d in the £ is proposed in the Fendalton channelling No. 2 rate. Proposals for separate rates* showed increases in the three Styx drainage rates of 3-16 d, id, and l-16d respectively, while an increase of 7-16 d is proposed in the Spencer’s drain rate. The proposed hospital rate showed a decrease of l-32nd. *

A motion of sympathy with Cr. H. Kitson, a member of the council, in the death of his mother-in-law, Mrs Frances Anderson, was carried.

Styx 2d 876 -298 Marshland . 3d 817 +46 Avon . . . IJd 1933 —273 Belfast 3d 940 +39 Harewood . 3d 1077 +98 Papanui . 15-16d 1205 —6 Wairarapa . Id 942 +315 Fendalton . id 4547 —37 Middleton . id 1577 +104