Ratepayers Decide To Limit Payment

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32126, 23 October 1969, Page 16

Ratepayers Decide To Limit Payment

(New Zealand Press Association)

AUCKLAND, October 22.

A meeting of Albany ratepayers has decided not to pay more than their 1968-1969 rates, plus 10 per cent. They will withold payment until one day before the penalty date.

More than 400 attended the meeting last night and expressed dissatisfaction at the Waitemata County Council imposing a rate of 2.1 c in the $1 over the whole of the county’s Kaukapakapa riding, which includes Albany. Previously, it had been proposed to set a general rate for the riding of 1.6 c with separate rates for certain areas. Because of its high property valuations, there was to be no separate rate in Albany. The meeting decided to ask

the Government to inquire into the manner in which county councillors were conducting the affairs of the county, with particular reference to the system of striking rates in the Kaukapakapa riding. The council’s chairman, Mr J. F. Colvin, said it would be embarrassing to have to resort in such a large number of cases to legal avenues to recover rates which had been properly struck in accordance with the obligations imposed on the council by law—and it would be distinctly embarrassing to have to accept from some people rates in excess of the sums assessed.