CATCHMENT BOARD RATING

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27075, 25 June 1953, Page 12

CATCHMENT BOARD RATING

EFFECT OF INCREASE IN VALUATION PROTEST BY RANGIORA BOROUGH COUNCIL A strong objection is to be sent by the Rangiora Borough Council to the North Canterbury Catchment Board at the borough being rated on the revised higher valuation, together with a request that classifications be gone into immediately. In deciding this at its monthly meeting last evening, the council decided that a copy of the resolution should be sent to the River and Soil Conservation- Council, the Minister of Works (Mr W. S. Goosman) and Mr W. H. Gillespie, M.P. A minute from the Town Clerk (Mr E. L. Briggs) said that the Catchment Board would direct the council to levy, for the board's purposes, three rates on all properties within the borough. The administrative rate had been increased from .05d last year to .0833 d and the Ashley area rate from ,3d to .4d. The Ashley area special rate was unaltered at .012 d. Because of the increase in the capital valuation of the borough from £950.385 to £1,956,900. the revenue derived from these rates would advance as follows: administration rate, £196 to £679; Ashley area rate, £ll7B to £3263; Ashley area special rate, £47 to £9B. While Christchurch City, with an area of 16,768 acres, would pay £19,000 in Catchment Board rates, Rangiora borough, with an area of 877 acres, would have to pay £4040, said the minute. In other words, Christchurch would pay slightly more than £1 2s an acre, whereas Rangiora would pay . just over £4 12s an acre.