LAST DAY FOR RATES
Big Mail Payment Expected
A big mail is expected at the City Council this morning, and most of it will obtain cheques in payment of rates, for although yesterday was the last day on which rates could be paid without incurring a 10 per cent, latepayment penalty, payments made by post and bearing yesterday’s postmark are accepted as having been paid within the required time.
• Cashiers at the council were busy all day yesterday accepting rates, although there were no long queues.
After a record payment for one day, £163,300, on Tuesday, the council’s collection from its levy of £1,539,418 reached £1,209,647, or 83.8 per cent., whereas at the same time last year it was 84.9 per cent. Most of the other local bodies in the metropolitan area also found yesterday that payments had come in more slowly than in previous years, but they expected yesterday’s payments and the money to come in by today's mail to bring their collections up to the usual figure of around 98 per cent.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28836, 5 March 1959, Page 12
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