RATEPAYERS' MEETING

Hutt News, Volume 19, Issue 14, 5 September 1945, Page 5

RATEPAYERS' MEETING

JOTTINGS FROM THE MAYOR'S ADDRESS At the 1920 poll when unimproved rating, was carried, only 89 people voted. # # # * Whereas the Hospital levy for Lower Hutt in 1893 was £b'7, by 1945 it had reached the figure of £34,448. .» # # » As the operations of the Land Sales Court has caused a serious shortage of competent Land Valuers, Lower Hutt can expect no relief for years to come by; way of revaluations. « * * * With 5100 State houses projected in Lower Hutt, the population by 1949 is estimated to reach 54,080. • • •' • Had the State houses in Lower Hutt been built by private contract and permit fees paid, the City Council would have received approximate ly £67,000 in such fees. * • * • From one block of 12 flats, the Council received £12/10/8, ; as Hos- • pital rates from the owner, but was required to' pay £68 to the. Hospital autljsftftiss for the same property. Auckland- has had Annual Rating for decades, and no place .has pro-> gressed like Auckland —unless it's Lower Hutt. •.* . • Because a State house in Marton was unoccupied for a day or two, the Crown, "knocked 2d. off the rates paid." • '