CITY RATES
■ To The Editor Sir,—l quite agree with “Last Straw” when he says that the increase in rates is exorbitant. Take my own case. The rates on my quarter-acre section for 1936 were a fraction over £3. This year, a new dwelling being erected, they are £5 12/-. An increase of 86 per cent! Yet my neighbours pay an average of £4 yearly on property the same size as mine, and my section is not a comer one, either. Why then the disparity in rates? I fail to see how the 40-hour week and increased costs justify the council s increasing rates to such an extent. — Yours etc., STUNG. August 24, 1937.
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Southland Times, Issue 23288, 26 August 1937, Page 7
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113CITY RATES Southland Times, Issue 23288, 26 August 1937, Page 7
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