HUTT LOAN POLL
MOTOErBUS SOHEMB-REJECTED- '-' Very. Httle interest was taken. yesterday in the proposal to borrow £6500 for the purpose of providing a motor-bus Bervicofor Lower Hutt. Tlie loau was rejected.by a maiority of IGO, the voting being ae follows: — >; IPOR THE PROPOSAL/ Hutt Booths., .;.;:...:.....*... '93, ' Wellingtoni Booth ..; ;i.s" 10 .■' . . : Total 103 , informal ; ;..,....f. ' 3 ' ; against: the proposal.- . Hutt Booths i 1;..... 240 WcUiugtoa Booth .....i... 23 . .;,; Total .;.....<... --W Informal ; ......;....» r i. 3 Maiority against ,tne loan J. 160. STRIKING THE RATIiS ■ '- '. .. .'■.: ' : " « ■—^i.--';•,-'. TWO DEMANDS IN ONE. '' ; Nowtnat tne!'.V,aiuer-:Geiieral (Mr. F. W. Iflaiiagaii) hae furnished the City Corporation ..with" :aa approximate amount of the'new city'valueSi no time is to be lost in striking the 'rate. _ A.t the meeimg of v thi3.".'Finance Cbnimitte'e of the City Council to be held pii Tuesday afte'rnobn the' appbr'tionmfnt will be sußmitted by 'tK6 city treasurer(Mr; Collins), and it is understood that as the demand is so belated that a proposal TfiU be made to strike'the rate for the- whole year at - the one time, Though the afipbrtipnineht be decided on-at.neit-'week's meeting, the Town Clerk 'state? -that owing; to. the time" allowed for the hearing of Objections to the new valuations, tod , the rather arduous task of working out the. iridividiial rj&tes for each property-owner, quite four weeks must elapse. before the rate demands can be issued. ,'
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2217, 1 August 1914, Page 7
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222HUTT LOAN POLL Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2217, 1 August 1914, Page 7
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