UNPAID MAORI RATES
«•> WAIAPU COUNTY PROBLEM ONLY 29 PER CENT RECEIVED The difficulties which confront a local body in collecting rates when it has on its valuation roll a large proportion of native occupiers of property are shown in a financial statement received from the Waiapu County Council. The statement shows the rates collected and collectible during the financial year 19321933. The rates collected over tho whole county, which consists of seven ridings, amounted to 62 per cent of the total. The collectible rates from tho European section of the county amounted to £10,632, and of this the sum of £9OIB, or 85 per cent, had been collected. In the native section, however, tho collectible rates totalled £7272, and only £2076, or 29 per cent, had been received. In the Waipiro and Hikuwai ridings more than 50 per cent of the rates due had been collected from the natives, but in tho Awauui and Tapuaeroa ridings only 19 and 18 per cent respectively had been received.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21463, 10 April 1933, Page 10
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166UNPAID MAORI RATES New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21463, 10 April 1933, Page 10
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