NATIVE RATES.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16942, 26 January 1926, Page 3

NATIVE RATES.

I) FFEICULTY OF COLLECTION. I LODGING- LIEN ON TITLES f The vexed question of native rates is mm that periodically crops up for discussion of local bodies, and for some time the Tauranga County Council lias been interesting itself in l.iie matter and considering the schivnie of lodging liens against titles. In asking for the. co-operation of the Matamala County Council at ils last meeting the Tauranga < mined said the objection to lodging liens was Ibo fact I bat lOs had to bo lodged in eineh ease, and that this means an ainouul of over £3OO annually to the council, The suggestion had been made that the Audit Department should examine the prepared lists of nativci rates s ml arrears, arid after certifying to same, forward them to the Native Lands Oflicei in each district. By the council paying the wages of an extra clerk employed in registering these amounts against I lie lilies there would be saved ,i lingo expjfnso mi a scheme, winch, at the present, (one, w,c, only a doutftd means of recover Hip the rater. A rmincillm: said there was no doubt Unit the intentions in the- remit ware good- Many obstacles In; thought, how• ever, made the scheme suggested by thn Tinuanga Council inoperable. Others members of the Council concurred, but thought there would be no barm in giving support to the proposal, and passed a resolution accordingly.