MANUKAU COUNTY

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 409, 18 July 1928, Page 2

MANUKAU COUNTY

RATES REMAIN THE SAME MAIN ROAD SUBSIDIES The general rates for the year which were struck at the meeting of the Manukau Council yesterday will be the same as last year in all ridings. In the hospital rate an increase of l-16d levied over the whole county is shown. In the Mangere Riduig the rate will be Id in the pound, yielding .LG,583, as against £5.585 from the same rate last year. The rate in the Papakura Riding is Id, providing £2,742 in revenue, a decrease of £7. The lowest rate is that in the Papatoetoe Riding, which is 7-Sd yielding £4.692, as against £4,432 last year. In the Pakuranga Riding the levy of 1 3-Sd will produce £2,SS4 in revenue. The highest raks in the county are in the Turanga and Wairon Ridings, where the levy will be I’d. yielding £1,546 and £3.888 respectively. This year the hospital levy is £5.621. and a rate of 5-16 d in the pound has been struck The rate last year was id. It is estimated that the new rate will yield £6,346, which with a balance of £1.109 carried forward from last year, will provide a credit balance of £1,834.

The Main Highways Board advised that three further subsidies had been made available—£los for the PanmureHowick Road. £l5O for the PapakuraClevedon Road, and £136 for the Great South Road. The Ma »urewa-Howick Road and the Papatoetoe Road had been gazetted as main highways. The building inspector reported that 17 applications for building permits valued at £6,925 had been issued.