LAG IN COUNTY RATE COLLECTION
The clerk of the Hutt County Council. Air H. R. Robinsou, reported to the council yesterday that the rates struck for the year amounted to £3l 91b, of which £24,549 had been paid. The current rates outstanding at December 2 last were £7367. He explained <bnt the ratepayers in Alangaroa and Horokiwi ridin"s who were mostly farmers, were usually slow in paying their rates, preferring to'wait even if they had to pay the peuThe chairman. Mr. R. L. Button, asked why the farmers of these ridings were slow in paying their rates. Cr. J. J. Alaher: The explanation rs simple. Mr. Chairman. The farmers are hard up; they are carrying on on 1938 prices and 1943 costs. Cr. Alaher said the nearby farmers who wore supplying milk to the AAellington City Council’s Milk Deplrtment, received 91<i. a gallon for their mill;, which the department was retailing at 2Sd. a gallon. The Wellington farmers bad received no increase in the price of milk, while all other dairyfarmers throughout New Zealand had been granted a 10 per cent increase. To show how farmers were up against it, it was only necessary to state that No. 8 fencing wire, winch before the war could be purchased for £l9 a ton, today cost £45 a ton.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 65, 11 December 1943, Page 6
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