RATES TOO HIGH.
COMPLAINT IN CITY. A Wanganui confectioner has reason to believe that hip. rates are too high when he compares the amount he pays with that paid by a- confectioner. with premises four times as lai-ge. situated on Melbourne’s busiest thoroughfare. Collins Street. Sneaking to a “Herald” reporter, he said that the rates on hy- Avenue shop were £l2O per annum. The Melbourne property, consisting of four rooms with, a shop front on the ground floor and two rooms on the first floor, and with a rental of £l3O a‘month, has ,to pay only £l5O per annum in rates. The of the two cities 5 are:' Melbourne 800.000, Wanganui 26,000. , ' ,
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Thames Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 17663, 14 August 1929, Page 4
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112RATES TOO HIGH. Thames Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 17663, 14 August 1929, Page 4
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