COLLECTION OF RATES
INCREASE IN THE CITY SIGN OF BETTER CONDITIONS An indication of tlie improvement in general conditions is given bj the fact that the total of the current year's rates received by the City Council up to yesterday was over £16.000 in excess of the .amount collected at the same date last year. It was stated by the Mayor, Mr. G. W. Hutchinson, at a meeting of the council last night, that £123,534 of current rates had been paid, whereas at December 13 last year the amount received was £107,337. Arrears of rates had been paid to a total of £45,211 this year, as against £45,820, but*tbe position was better than those figures indicated. Last year £5645 was included in the total of the arrears collected, but this represented the amount credited to ratepayers who had worked off their arrears by taking employment under the council. This year only £2270 had been accouhted for in this way. In the aggregate the receipts this year were about £15,500 better than last year. •
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21983, 14 December 1934, Page 12
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