VOTES FOR BLIND FUND.
CITY COUNCIL’S LIMIT. * The Controller and Auditor-General, • in a letter lo the City Council regard- | ing the Sir Arthur Pearson Memorial j fund, says: j 11 In reply to your letter of the 12th I I have the honour to inform ! you that there is no special permisj si on enabling your Council to make a i grant for the purpose mentioned. The ! Public Revenues Act clause for ‘ Unauthorised * is the only available The clause referred to enables the* Council to spend one per cent of the general rate for “unauthorised” purjMises. Last year the sum was a little over £IOOO- The position in regard to the Blind Fund is that the Finance Committee* has been recommended to provide such a sum on the estimates, up to £IOOO, as the city's finances will stand.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16737, 19 May 1922, Page 7
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138VOTES FOR BLIND FUND. Star (Christchurch), Issue 16737, 19 May 1922, Page 7
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