Mayor ‘reluctant to talk of rates’
The Labour niavoral can-: didate (Mr H. A. Clark) has) criticised the Mayor (Mr! Hamish Hay), saying he is' reluctant to talk about cam-, paign issues, especially rates. “This is a matter of im-: portance to every resident! and cannot be dismissed as! easily as the Mayor appar-j ently wants to do,” Mr( Clark said in a statement to “The Press”. While the Mayor had; readily justified his council’s I steep rises in fees by the. political red herring of: blaming a previous council) for not putting them up dur-1 ing its term of adminis-. tration, he had forgotten 1
(that many people concerned t were ratepayers and thus' I had a double dose of in- ' creased costs, Mr Clark said. ( He estimated that rates) (would increase by 15 per; (cent next year, at the] 'present rate of expenditure.; :The Labour Party had fori imany months been con-; icerned about the little that, (the Citizens council had to; 'show for the sharply in-; ; creased rates it had inflicted! lon people of Christchurch,! IMr Clark said in his statement. He challenged Mr Hay to, ; explain how he would con-! (trol his expenditure as well! las keep his present growth; ■in spending and honour his I ■1974 election promises. '
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