RICCARTON RATE DEMANDS

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25248, 29 July 1947, Page 5

RICCARTON RATE DEMANDS

DECREASE IN TOTAL LIKELY

The general rate of the Riccarton Borough Council would not be changed this year, and through some reductions in the levies of other authorities, it was probable that there would be a small decrease in the total demand on most ratepayers this year, said the Mayor (Mr H. S. S. Kyle), when the council struck its new rates last evenThe summary of estimated expenditure was as follows:—general administration. £1434; miscellaneous. £2800; public works, £8204; total. £12,438 Estimated receipts: credit from last year. £1110; licences, refunds, etc., £4256; from rates, £7072.

The following rates in the £ were approved: general, 4d on unimproved value: street lighting, Id on unimproved value; water, 2d for dwellings supplied and Id for dwellings which could be supplied, but which are not’within 100 yards of the water works; North Canterbury Hospital Board, 27-8 d on unimproved value; North Canterbury Catchment Board, 1-406 on capital value and also on class B land of the former Waimakariri River Trust, 115-1000 d on capital value; Christchurch Drainage Board, 27-128 d on capital value, and also on land within the section known as .he sewers ge area, 47-128 d on capital value.