UNPAID RATES.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 643, 22 December 1932, Page 15

UNPAID RATES.

Heathcote County Imposes Penalty. -A meeting of the Heathcote County Council was held yesterday, Mr C. Flaveil presiding. By-laws passed at a special meeting of the council on November 18 were confirmed. It was decided that a penalty of 10 per cent be imposed on all rates unpaid by 4 p.m. on February 16. 1933. roTJo e .r Counc ’* decided to raise a loan of £ :,/ or the Purpose of sewerage works at Mount Pleasant, such loan to be raised under Section 17. sub-section (e) °“ , Local Bodies Loans Act, 1926, and to have a term of thirty years, with a sinking fund of £1.605 per cent, and interest not exceeding 5J per cent. The District Electrical Engineer advised that the Public Works Department had decided not to sell the reticulation to the Sanatorium, but that the alteration of rates to the Farnley consumers was now under consideration, lhe letter was received. Mount Fleasant Causeway. The Public Works Department, Wellington, advised that the land at the causeway, Mount Pleasant, would be declared a road as soon as satisfactory arrangements had been made to include the reserve in the adjoining local district. The letter was received. The Christchurch Public Utilities Committee applied to the council to bear its proportion of the cost of erecting a vault for the storage of records. The estimated cost would be approximately £IBO. The space available would be dependent upon the amount of contributions received from local authorities. It was decided to ask how much the council’s share of the work would cost. Grants Made. A sr^ nt , of 5 s was made to the funds of the St John Ambulance Association. A grant of £2 2s was made towards the fund for entertaining children from the Cashmere Fresh Air Home at ChristAfter consideration of a letter from Mr C. Ogilvie, Cashmere, it Mas decided that the coun y clerk again go into the question of taking over the Winter Gardens as a park. Councillor Kerr reported that a street light was at present unnecessary at the corner of Marlow Street and Eureka Street.