HIGHER COUNTY RATES
Urgent Riding Requirements Budgeted For An increase of from 25 to 50 per cent, on Hawke’s Bay County rates is anticipated this year. This will not come as a surprise to those who read the reports of the last monthly meeting of the County Council, when the chairman, Mr F. B. Logan, issued a warning that ratepayers ‘‘would receive a shock” when they received their rate demands. The urgent requirements of the various ridings of the country, involving a big expenditure, necessitate this increase. The requirements have been budgeted for, and will be completed at next Monday’s meeting of the council. The rate will be struck next month, and ratepayers will receive their demands in August The council’s general rate, which is divided up among the ridings in proportion to their valuation, is 33 per cent, in excess of last year’s. This year the total amount expected to be divided among the ridings is £24,286, compared with £18,738 last year. In most cases, the ridings are reverting to the rate struck for the year 1930.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 152, 12 June 1936, Page 7
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178HIGHER COUNTY RATES Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 152, 12 June 1936, Page 7
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