A SERIOUS ERROR
COMPUTATION OF RATES BOARD .IN DILEMMA (Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. Surprise and concern were expressed at last evening’s meeting of the Christchurch Drainage Board, when the finance committee stated that correspondence had been received from the town clerk enclosing a report from the city rate collector that, owing to an error, a certain drainage rate would provide only .€316, instead of £3160. The rate collector also stated that it was too late to send out fresh demands. The only alternative was to collect the shortage" on next year’s demands. After considering a report by the secretary to. the effect that the failure of the City Council to collect the rate in full would probably cause the board serious embarrassment during the remainder of the financial year, or in the succeeding vear, the board decided to adopt the finance committee’s recommendations that the City Council be requested to carry out tho board’s requirements and take steps to collect the amount requisitioned for.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18584, 19 December 1934, Page 5
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166A SERIOUS ERROR Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18584, 19 December 1934, Page 5
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