UPPER HUTT COUNCIL

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 22, 26 July 1927, Page 4

UPPER HUTT COUNCIL

There was a full attendance" of councillors at the fortnightly meeting of the Lpper Hutt Borough Council last evening. Hie Mayor (Mi-. P. Kobertson) presided A letter was received from the Minister ot Justice (the Hon. F. J. R o ll e3 ton), informing the council that there were other more urgent works to which the (jovernment was committed, and which must take precedence of the council's reHutt a UeW Courthouse at Upper

Xhe following rates Were struck for the period Ist April, 1927, to 31st March W>B and will be formally confirmed by the council on 12th August:— (1) A general rate of 3'/id in the £ on fte unmoved value (£131,000) in the East Ward, and of 5 3-8 don the unimproved value (£76,500) in the West Ward(2) a water maintenance rate of l-8d for users, and 1-lfid for non-users in the East Ward; (3) a Hospital and charitable aid rate of Id in the £ in each ward- (i) a consolidated interest rate of l%d j n the East Ward; (5) a sanitation charge ot 2os on all rateable property in the East and West Wards on which a building is erected, and from which the council is prepared to remove nightsoil. The whole of the rates are due and payable in one instalment on 7th September of this year.