LAND BOUGHT FOR STATE HOUSES
GOVERNMENT URGED TO PAY RATES
(From Our Parliamentary Reporter.! WELLINGTON, July 5. An appeal to the Government' to face its responsibilities and meet rating, demands on properties purchased lor State houses Was made by Mr H. S. S. Kyle (National, Riccarton), when speaking in the debate on the Address-in-Reply in the House of Representatives to-night. Mr Kyle said that the Minister for Finance (the Hon. W. Nash) represented a borough which had had great difficulty during the depression because of the refusal of the Government to pay rates on Crown hinds. ' Seventy-eight acres had . recently been purchased In Riccarton for State houses, and unless the Government paid the rates pending the erection of the homes, it would be necessary to increase the rates. Many codnty. councils would find themselves in similar difficulties if the Government refused to pay the rates until thedand was in actual occupation. The previous Government had promised relief.
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22446, 6 July 1938, Page 12
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