PAYING OF RATES.
ON NON-EXISTENT PROPERTY. A ratepayer in the Carterton borough has paid rates on a non-existent section for the past 17 years, and findi ing this out at last he applied to the Carterton Borough Council for a refund (says the Wairarapa News). Councillors all agreed that a refund I should he made of the total amount I paid in. 110 ;{s Id. Before doing this,* however, the Council obtained the opinion of the municipal bodies' solicitor, who stated that legally the Council could refund only the rates for the immediate preceding six years, the Statute of Limitations then coming I into operation. The Council decided to refund mx years' rates, amounting to about £l3, and to endeavour to obtain I the consent of the Audit Department i for a. full reftind
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XX, Issue 2063, 6 January 1925, Page 7
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134PAYING OF RATES. King Country Chronicle, Volume XX, Issue 2063, 6 January 1925, Page 7
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