Property sale for rates?
Seven Christchurch city properties with rates arrears of more than $l2OO may be sold to pay the bills.
The City Council has started the lengthy legal procedure to sell the properties. The outstanding rates range from $1215 to $3082, and date back to 1982. The usual council rou-
tine of writing to the ratepayers concerned has been followed and summonses and judgments by the court have been entered in each case.
The City Treasurer, Mr Bob Lineham, says the counciil has not actually sold a property to retrieve rates in the last 20 years. Proceedings are started against a few each year,
but payment is usually made before ' the auctioneer’s hammer falls.
At first this year’s list had 10 properties. Two have paid up, and an arrangement for payment by instalment has been made with a third. The amounts outstanding include mounting penalties for non-payment and court costs.
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Press, 13 September 1988, Page 7
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