WAITOMO COUNTY
RIDING ACCOUNTS RETAINED GRANTS FOR ROAD WORK [by telegraph—OWN correspondent] TE KUITI, Friday The Waitomo County Council resolved to take no action on a report submitted by the clerk on tho' proposed abolition of riding accounts and the consolidation of the general vrate. This matter had been hold over for some time to enable the full council to discuss the question, and a resolution to act upon the clerk's recommendation to adopt consolidation, eliminating the riding account system, was lost by «ix votes to throe. Under the proposal it would have been necessary to levy a general rate of 3sd over th<» wholo county to raise the samo money as is done at present. Hiding accounts would have been abolished and all payments made from the central account. At present five of the ridings have uniform rates of 4d, Aria has one of 3jd, Mnlioenui one of 3-Jd and Awalcino one of 3d. Reading grants were made as follows in the Supplementary Estimates:—Ngakakore, £4OO, free; Taumatamaire, £600; Waihohonu, £1200; Te Kuiti to Kopaki, £2500, additional; Mapara South, £1800; Fullerton's, £2000; Tate's access, £400; Hauturu South, £480; Kaeaea (added), £600; Mangaokewa, £1500; Porootarao, £750; Tuinntuinu (added), £2400.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22909, 11 December 1937, Page 17
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198WAITOMO COUNTY New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22909, 11 December 1937, Page 17
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