GOVERNMENT IN TRADE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18456, 20 July 1923, Page 8

GOVERNMENT IN TRADE.

RATES BY LOCAL. BODifES. ■■ '■ i - , | EXEMPTION" SHOULD" 'END ' ' MUNICIPAL RESOLUTION \ ■■'.'■'-''"■ '".. • ' " y; [by : ; telegraph.—press : ' association,! i * ..> CUTJSTCEURCH, Thursday. At the Municipal conference to-c&y Mr.' G. J. Wallace, - Mayor of Timaro/l' moved that, all public trust offices .' h« -• made rateable. He said public trust'''''•.: offices carried on business .in the ; or{ijaS ary way and were not in tho same pes. tion as other , Government departments. I Another delegate expressed the opinion I that the Government Life, Insurance £}*„ Ea'rtment should also be rated for- its uiJdings which were . frequently .sub-lei'; to tenants. j'-,. The chairman, Mr. J. A. ■ Flesherl Mayor of Ghristchurch, suggested thai'?' the remit should be altered to ' provide!? that all buildings owned by the public trust office or other Government . trad* • ing departments be made rateable.' \ . A delegate said he thought the pe-i mit should be allowed to stand in : |tJP original form. The conference had very .strong case against the public' trust office whicn had picked out the beat sites in a number of towns. He thought /'iff! they widened the scope of the remit'too much they would probably not gain any**P thing. •-,*.': Mr. Wallace said to make the remit ' ■ comprehensive it should include all Q«j v ;' •>, ernment trading concerns, but he waV '■' prepared to leave the matter for the con** ference to decide. ' > ' K/'^-yStf An amendment that all building-" owned or occupied by the public trustee S or other Government departments; wHom H business competes with any. private business be mads rateable, was carried. - " > ;! —-• . *$ ,5f