UNPAID NATIVE RATES
AND HOSPITAL LEVIES - A suggestion thai counties embracing tracts of native land, on which it was next to impossible to collect rates, should be relieved of part of the burden of hospital levies was made to the Minister of Health, Hon. J. A. Voung, by Mr. A. E. Jull, president of the Counties' Association, when speaking on behalf of a deputation in Wellington. / Mr. Jull pointed out that, She capital valuation of those native lands was included in tho total valuation of the counties in which they were situated, and although the natives did not pay rates the county still had to find the necessary contribution. He quoted the case of the Waitoino County Council, which had .tit),ooo owing in uncollected native rates, yet the area on which that sum should have been paid was included in the valuation on which the levy was assessed, lie suggested that a. statutory declaration setting forth the area and value of the land on which rates bad not been paid should bo made by the county, and that the valuation of thai area should be deducted from the total on which the levy was assessed; anil in any case if part of that burden had to be borne it should be shouldered by the whole hospital board district, rather than by the particular county concerned. Expressing his own personal opinion, and not speaking as the Minister of Health, the lion, J. A. Voung said the solution put forward was u reasonable one. lie promised to bring it before the (iovei'iiment, though it was a matter which concerned Departments other than his own.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16375, 24 June 1927, Page 12
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272UNPAID NATIVE RATES Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16375, 24 June 1927, Page 12
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