EARLY RATES
More than third paid Before the introduction of instalment rating, councils could always count on payments by due date being short of the total levy —but such is not now the case.
The Waimairi County Council yesterday had $831,931. or 112 per cent of its rates in by due date to avoid the 10 per cent penalty for the first of three instalments. The count was not finished as the staff coped with a pile of mail containing rates cheques.
“We have collected more than the one-third instalment because so many people have paid all their rates at the one time,” said the council’s rates clerk Mr V. Buller). “It will take some time to find out just what proportion of the total is actually the first instalment.”
The Paparua County Council’s count was not completed yesterday, but it was expected that collections from the Hornby and Sockburn ridings would be about 110 per cent of the instalment.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32701, 2 September 1971, Page 1
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