RATE PAYMENTS

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 6, 8 January 1934, Page 9

RATE PAYMENTS

IMPROVEMENTS SHOWN

IN THREE BOROUGHS!

CITY LESS FAVOURABLE '

Improvements in the way in which the rates have come in for the year are shown by the Eastbourne, Lower Hutt, and Petono Borough Councils. "■

Tho position for the city of Wellington is not quito so favourable.

The total levy for the year 1933-34 was £502,17'! 17s lid, and the amount paid to December 31, 1933, was £212,307 5s 7d, leaving a balance outstanding at that date of £290,167 12s 4d. The position for the previous year was thnt of a- total rate struck of £508,401 Bs, £243,368 Ss was paid to December 31, leaving outstanding i. J6a,036. In other words over £25,000 more is outstanding this year. Arrears of rates for the year 1932-33 wero £u3,207 19s lid. Up to December 31 1933, £15,203 8 3 7d was paid, leaving a balance outstanding at that dato of £38,004 11s 4d.

At Eastbourne in both years the total levy was £10)500. Payments to December 31 in 1932 wore £3162 16s 5d while to that date in 1933 £5137 6s 4d was paid, or nearly £2000 more in rates paid.

The total levy at Petonc in the'year, 1932-1933> was £32,474 7s Ud of' which £15,955 3s 4d was paid at De-1 cember 31», leaving £16,519 4s 7d outstanding. In the year 1933-1934, of a total levy of £30,446 10s lid, £16,814 11s 4d was paid at December 21. leaving £13,631 19s 7d outstanding. Tho rate struck for the current year by the Lower Hutt Borough amounted to £47,250. Tho amount of the current rates paid from April 1 to December 31, 1933, was £20,8C0 14s 9d, equivalent to 44.15 per cent. The rate struck for, tho previous year w«» £45,750, and tho amount paid to the end of •December was £18,976 19s, or 41.48 per cent. The outstanding rates paid from April 1 to December 31, 1933, were £8767 13s Bd, while tho outstanding rates paid during the cprresponding period of tho previous year were £6761 14s 9i3. The total receipts from all rates, current and outstanding, paid from April 1 to December 31 this year, exceeds the amount for the same period of tho previous year by £3889 14s BA, made up as follows:—Excess of current year's rates paid, £1883 15s 9d; excess of outstanding Tatcs paid, £2005 18s lid.