NATIVE RATES NOT PAID.
A TEST CASE SUGGESTED
In all Native rates, current and arrears owing to the Patangata County Council amount to about £7OOO. and the proportion of ’£4s in the £lOOO is being collected. Th© chairman reported to this effect at yesterday’s meeting of the Council and lie stated that the demands could not be enforced. It was a large amount to b© losing but th© Council had no recourse where payment was refused. For th© current year a sum of £l5OO was unpiaid. Th© county clerk stated that the difficulty was to track down the owners. Th© nominated owners—generally one or two—paid their share of th© rates, about 2s 4d, and would not recognise liability for anything further, H© suggested a test case of suing the nominated owners.
Councillors talked around th© subject but no action was taken.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIV, Issue 80, 12 March 1924, Page 4
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