WELLINGTON RATES
Receipts Ahead Of Last
Year’s
"Wellington ratepayers are given till Friday of next, week, February 24, to pav their rates for the year 1940-41 Thereafter the 10 per cent, penalty will be imposed against all defaulters. Ims is the usual procedure followed, and is in accordance with legislative authority. , , An inquiry was made yesterday as to how the rates were coming in. as compared witli last year. Up to February 7 (last Friday) the amount received in rates during the year was about £-0,000 iu excess of the sum received up to the corresponding date last year. This is a little better than it. reads, tor whereas the total rates levy for 193940 was £637,000. the amount ot the lew for the current year was £615,000, a difference of £22,000. This difference resulted from the fall in the amount of the levy made on the City Corporation by the''Wellington Hospital and Charitable Aid Board.
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Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 117, 11 February 1941, Page 6
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156WELLINGTON RATES Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 117, 11 February 1941, Page 6
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