LAND TAKEN BY STATE
Council Dissatisfied At Loss Of Rates
Dominion Special Service. DADAIiERiSTON N„ February 9. Following receipt of a letter from the Public AVorks Department regarding the taking of further land in the Manawatu County for defence purposes, general dissatisfaction in regard to the position of rates on such land was expressed at a meeting of the county council. Or. 11. J. Fagan said that tbe Government, was taking this land and leasing large parts of it. It was getting nioney for this, but was not paying any rates on it. The county clerk, Air. A. K, Drew, said that many county and borough councils were in the same position. “The Kairanga County Council is worse off than we are,” said Cr. Boyce. “It has Massey College and a military camp in its area, and the position is hard on the ratepayers as they have to find all the rates.”
Cr. R. A. Wilson said that the Slanawatu County Council also bad the Government fiax area, in its district. The Government was lensing the land and not paying rates on it.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 115, 10 February 1944, Page 3
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