H.B. COUNTY COUNCIL RATES
Satisfactory Collections
This year the Hawke’s Bay County Council has collected 91 per cent, of its European rates, or thereabouts, a return which a county official described yesterday as quite satisfactory. From February .1 to February 14, when the penalty was imposed, £20,000 was received by the county clerk, Mr W. J. O'Connell. This sum represents 72 per cent, of the collectible rates, which means that in the first ten months of the year actually tho county
received only 19 per cent, of rates due. For the purposes of this assessment, these figures may be taken as correct, since though the final analysis is nut quite complete, there will be very little difference, said Mr O’Connell. It was said that in the Hawke’s Bay County there is a great number of Crown tenants whose rates are in arrears, and "if they paid as well as the freeholders, the percentage of rates collected this year would be very much higher than i» shown by the interim return. ’’
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 63, 24 February 1934, Page 5
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