DARGAVILLE RATES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22708, 21 April 1937, Page 11

DARGAVILLE RATES

INCREASE ANTICIPATED [BT TELEGRAPH —OWN correspondent] ' DARGAVILLE, Tuesday -itu "It looks as if an increase in the annual rate for this year is unavoidable," said Miss L. Watson, town clerk and treasurer to the Dargaville Bor- "s----ough Council, in her annual report sub- 1 r:. mitted to the council last evening. The Mayor, Mr. F. A. Jones, said .it he thought that people were prepared for an increase and as long as they t . saw improvement and progress they would not mind. The council had in the last three years left some £4OO or £SOO in the pockets of ratepayers. It had been able to save the rate- ' payers when things were bad, and now that times were brighter they should dip deeper into their, pockets. The report was adopted. '. The question of reduced working "J* hours for members of the staff was . - the subject of a special report by the,, Mayor, who recommended that the -3 Legal and Finance Committee be re- - T quested to go into the matter and bring forward to the council at its next meet- - > ing a report on the question of hicreasing the office staff, together with the appointment of an additional per- 'immanent hand to be employed on public > works under the control of the fo re * man. - , ,' ( C, The recommendations were adopt#"*