REFUND OF RATES ORDERED
CLAIM AGAINST COUNCIL (By Telegraph—Press Association) WELLINGTON, 4th August. A refund of £l4 5s 4d, being half rates paid in respect of two unoccupied houses at Eastbourne, was ordered by Mr E. Page, S.M., at the Magistrate’s Court to-clay, when lie delivered, judgrnent in favour of J. R. E. Bennett, who claimed to recover that amount from the Eastbourne Borough Council under Section 69 of the Rating Act, 1925.
Mr Page said it was provided thatwhere any dwelling-house or other building remained actually vacant and unoccupied for not less than six months in any rating year and the owner gave notice to tho local authority, ho would bo liable to pay only one-half of the amount of the year’s rates.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 6 August 1931, Page 7
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124REFUND OF RATES ORDERED Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 6 August 1931, Page 7
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