TE MATA PARK

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 136, 23 May 1928, Page 5

TE MATA PARK

EXEMPTION OF RATES SOUGHT. CLAUSE TO BE INSERTED IN WASHING-UP BILL. It was contended at to-day's meeting of the Hawke's Bay County Council that it was unfair that the Te Mata Park should ba subject to rates while other such areas were exempt.

The question was raised by Mr. T. Mason Chambers when the Te Mata Trust Board wrote asking tor a grant of £2O to supplement its funds. Mr. Chambers pointed out that one solicitor had stated that it was illegal for the council to make such a grant, while the one who drafted the agreement contended that grants for such a purpose were not illegal. With such conflicting opinions it was difficult to know exactly what was the nositron. If the council made the grant, and it was ruled as being illegal, he would refund the amount to the council out of his own pocket. Mr. W. Tucker agreed that it was unite unfair that this domain should be subiect to rates and suggested that steps be immediately taken to have it exempted The chairman explained that the only wav it could be overcome would he bv the insertion of a clause in the Washing Up Bill.

The council then agreed that the solicitors be instructed to draw up a clause tn be inserted in the Washing Up Bill for the n-xt session exempt, ing the Te Mata Park from rates.