RATING REFORM.
NEW MEASURE IN OPERATION. (Brituli Official Wireless.) RUGBY, September 25. On Tuesday, the rating reform scheme of the late Conservative Government will come into full operation, and from that date British industry will be relieved of three-fourths of the burden of rates which it has hitherto borne. Although assistance has already been given to agriculture and to certain of the heavier trades, industry. as a whole has yet to receive the benefit of the greater part of the scheme, for the purposes of which a sum estimated at some £26,000,000 yearly is to be made available. The section of the Act that deals with the reform of local , government will not come into operation until! April next.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18382, 28 September 1929, Page 19
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119RATING REFORM. Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18382, 28 September 1929, Page 19
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