Funds for Local Bodies.
: TO THE'EDITOB, : - SIB,— Mr G. F. Bichardfon complafoa that the notice of the amounts payable by the Government to local bodies is misleading,. Bow the Act cays— " Daring each .financial Weir," in respect of all Bams actually collected by way of general rates for the year, K > ending on the 81st day of March, 18«B,there ■hall be paid to each county council, where tJiere gr« no totd distnct botrd, £2 to £1 ; tadt^hert there are road boards, £1 to£l; to-rbad board*, and? ifil to «1 to county oonncili:; *nd;to county councils over those dirtricUV; where there; are: no, Toad boards, M toi *1 . ■■ Saihat the 1 county gets at the rate of &l to £1 to Mil boardfi;A» a large portion of the county tenoi included in any road board district it follows iinat over a Jarge area the countyconncil^will receive *2 to «l collectea, al-j tbongh the total paid to the county and road DOfrdv mu»t not exceed £10,000 per tannin, bne-haif of which will be payabie,as atated in the notice yon published.on the 31st HaroH next; ' There is therefore nothing to xetnet from that statement. Parliament ■•■= Totei money for each period ending 3lst llarch.' The rote Parliament passed last ' amion was tor the wi .oiontlw ending 3Ut Mwchnext.— lam,kc, THB ObMJltßtt. '
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Southland Times, Issue 9091, 15 December 1885, Page 3
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217Funds for Local Bodies. Southland Times, Issue 9091, 15 December 1885, Page 3
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