LOSS BY WRITING OFF RATES
MORTGAGE ADJUSTMENT AND LOCAL BODIES The writing off of arrears of local body rates by mortgage adjustment commissions prompted the Christchurch Drainage Board last night to a decision to call a conference of local bodies to discuss the position. The
discussion arose from a letter from the Christchurch-City Council, setting out the council’s concern at the loss of rate revenue. Mr H. G. Livingstone asked if it was intended that the city solicitors should sit in at all commission hearings. If that was so, it might be simply a waste of time, he suggested. “These commissions make up their minds. Sometimes it suits you and sometimes it doesn’t, but I don’t see what can be done about it. Private people have to take their gruel in these decisions, and I suppose we’ll have to, too.” A member of the Government had said in a recent address that the com-
mission had written off £4,000,000- But the Government did not write it off. Private citizens wrote it off to benefit other citizens. The final resolution to call a conference came from Mr W. J. Walter and was adopted.
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22464, 27 July 1938, Page 5
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