CATCHMENT BOARDS
COLLECTION OF RATES AMENDMENT TO LEGISLATION SOUGHT The Municipal Association of New Zealand decided yesterday to seek an amendment to the Soil Conservation and Rivers Control Act to provide that, where a local authority rated on the unimproved value, the rate be adjusted so that the proceeds should, as nearly as possible, equal, but not exceed, those derived from a similar rate levied on the annual or capital value. . , N Mr E. C. Westbury (Te Aroha), who moved the remit, said that some local bodies had been obliged to change their system of rating to collect the catchment board rate. Mr S. Ensor (Thames) said that the remit proposed that the collection of catchment board rates should be brought into line with the system adopted in collecting hospital board and other rates where the local body rated on the unimproved values. Mr J. F. Sturmer (Invercargill) said that the catchment board could levy the rate itself or could have the local body collect the rate for it. He considered. that the amendment sought was justified, as the right of local bodies to levy on unimproved values, if they so desired, should be retained.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26747, 16 April 1948, Page 9
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