LEVIES MADE IN CHRISTCHURCH

Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24614, 10 July 1945, Page 4

LEVIES MADE IN CHRISTCHURCH

» ' LOCAL BOMBS* OTHER THAN COUNCIL Rates for drainage this year would be moretnan’the residents of the former borough hag been paying, said Cr. M. Ei Lybnl/replylng w - a question by Cr. F. Brandt at a meat* J ing of the Council last evening. The Drainage Board jtitturaUy hat 1 had no- experience asTto thf Sumner drainage systeifc qbst to main? tain, said Cr. Lyons.,3S(f board wH "making a stab’’ at ei&mating how , much it cost. The Suntr drainW* . rate of id in the £ turn out to be too higfc4f ; s6. the suf», plus would remain board's counts, and would eventually be r#» : turned to the Sumner people.Fro® ■ reports which he had seen, continued Cr. Lyons, it looked as J# the Sumner Borough Council, had it : remained » , existence, would have been forced <0 spend considerably increased amounts on its undertakings. Surface dralnaf* at Sumner was a very real problem. >■* The contention that the present systern of rating was “away back in the dark ages of local body government was made by Cr. G. Manning. He viewed with alarm the method* which the Drainage Board was adopting to control the, Sumner drainage area, said Cr. J. E. Tail. Control undar r the City Council would be much mo» satisfactory, and the council should H9‘ ; rest until it had control of the Dnifl-' ; age Borrd under its own hands. Referring to rating by outs : de local bodies in the Christchurch area. Cf-,, Lyons said that the Waimakariri Rivtf ■.», Trust’s levy over the city area j £lB 000. and the Drainage Board's levy f ; ~ w's ,£89.000. The latter would B**: slightly more for the present finnncilwc: year. ' i: Cr Brandt asked if Sumner residents jt could (=x< ect a further increase in <h*.g.S North Centerburv Ho’ioita! Roni'd*Wi lew in 1945-4 r > Replyin", Cr said he thought greater “howl" If the joh of t ho Hos<p| pital Board were not heino . J one P r ?*|| perly, than over increased rrtmg. II