ESSENTIAL WORK ONLY

Northern Advocate, 13 June 1931, Page 3

ESSENTIAL WORK ONLY

COUNTY COUNCIL'S POLICY. The new estimates were finally considered by the Whangarei County Council at its meeting yesterday. Cr J, A. S. Mac Kay asked whether it ivas Arise to allow so much for uncollected rates..

The clerk said the -whole position was fraught with unaccustomed difficulties. He had allowed for the collection of £3OOO of £SOOO outstanding. In many cases where the settler h'eld a mortgage under the State Advances Department it was hardly likely that both current rates and arrears would he collected in the same year. Cr Mac Kay said it would he awkward if riding members spent up to the limit allowed in the estimates, 'and then found that the revenues would be much less than anticipated.

The clerk said that the confidential report presented to members was intended to. assist iu meeting the situation.

The chairman’ said that what was desired was the undertaking of necessary maintenance work only until after Christmas, when the position would bo know r n. Operations on £1 for £1 grants and new work's would have to be held iu abeyance in the meantime. The principles of the confidential report were accepted and the estimates adopted.