HARBOUR BOARD

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 112, 11 April 1929, Page 8

HARBOUR BOARD

PROPOSAL TO COLLECT RATE. (From Our Own. Correspondent.) FOXTON, April 10. The proposal by tho Foxton Harbour Board to collect a harbour rate over its district is causing no little concern amongst tho various contributing bodies. Tho board’s district comprises the following six Local bodies, tho capital rateable value being shown against each namo: Manawatu County Council (including Rongotea Town Board, £40,512), £3,559,649) Kairanga County Council, £4,711,207; Palmerston North Borough Council, £6,549,214; Feeding Borough Council, £1,476,576; Levin Borough Council, £716,322; Foxton Borough Council, £286,431; a gross total of £17,299,409. The Foxton Harbour Amendment Act, 1917, provides that the maximum rato that may be levied on each of tho contributing bodies in fractions of a penny in the £1 is as follows: Manawatu County ith, Kairanga County l/24th, Palmerston North Borough 1 /10th, Fcilding Borough l/20th, Levin Borough 1 /12th, Foxton Borough 7/Bths. This maximum rate, if all called up to-day, would produce £7OOO. On a £IOOO levy by the Harbour Board, the amounts to be paid by the various bodies are as follow: Manawatu County £265, Kairanga County £ll7, Palmerston North Borough £390, Foilding Borough £44, Levin Borough £35, Foxton Borough £149. Considerable injustice would, however, be done if tho board should decide to call up moro revenue that it actually required from year to year and a proposal of this nature would be strenuously opposed. <