COUNTY MERGER
West Coast Opposition By Telegraph—Press Association. Greymoutli, May 6. The Grey County Council to-night decided to support the Inangahua County Council’s decision against amalgamation as requested by the Minister of Internal Affairs, Hon. W. E. Parry, and to advise the Minister that it saw no reason why there should’be amalgamation. A conference of both councils discussed the matter at length. It was pointed out that rating in the Inangahua county was on unimproved value and in the Grey county ( on capital value. Speakers expressed' the opinion that merging would result in the adoption for the whole area of rating on capital value, which, it was contended for the Inangahua council, would cripple the quartz mining industry. The resolution was adopted with one dissentient.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 189, 7 May 1937, Page 12
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125COUNTY MERGER Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 189, 7 May 1937, Page 12
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