COUNTY RATE REDUCTIONS.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 13 June 1932, Page 4

COUNTY RATE REDUCTIONS.

ALL RIDINGS BENEFIT; WIROKINO BY A FARTHING. HOSPITAL RATE SLIGHTLY EASED.

Aftc*; the estimates for the current year had been considered, and in some respects amended, at the meeting of the Horowhenua County Council on Saturday, reductions were made in the general rate in , all four ridings—substantially so in Wirokino, • which, during the last financial year, converted a debit i balance of £607 into a credit of ; £3093. The new rates and the old are shown below: —

Riding. 1932-33. 1931-32. Tokomaru 7-16 d. -Jd. Wirokino 15-32 d. 23-32 d. Otaki 7-16 d. id. Te Hpro fid. 11-16 d. The hospital rate is also lower for the current year, being 3-16 d, as against 13-64 d. The rates of the various waterrace districts remain the same as last year. Converted into their aggregate equivalents the fractional rates represent the following totals:— Levied Levied ReducRiding. 1931-32 1932-33 tion. £ £ £ Tokomaru 2880 2520 360 Wirokino 6136 4008 2128 Otaki 1347 1179 168 Te Hero 2123 1931 192 £12,494 £9638 £2848 In the case of the Wirokino riding the actual (reduction of rate will amount to £1 0s lOd per £IOOO of capital valuation, and in the other three ridings the reduction amounts to a quarter of that. Comparison with the general average reveals the Horowhenua County in a very favourable light as in relation to most other counties. According to this Government Statistician fqr the financial year . 1929-30, the average rate per £IOOO of rateable capital value of the whole of the counties of the Dominion was £6.02; for Horowhenua County in that ylear it was £4.94. Last year, Horowhenua’s total worked out at £4.208 and this year, with the reductions made bn Saturday, the total average rate paid per £IOOO of capital value will be £3.84.

Particulars of the estimates will be published in. a subsequent issue.