NEEDFUL LEGISLATION
RATES OH CROWN LANDS COUNTY CHAIRMAN’S COMMENTS Under the heading of “Needful Legislation’’ unpaid rates on Crown Lands are dealt with as follows in the annual report of the Hawke’s Bay County Council prepared by the chairman and submitted to the annual meeting of that body yesterday morning:— “As the Crown continues to acquire land for settlement and as the State Advances and other Government departments lend out money on mortgage it is imperative that where the owner of the land is the Crown and the mortgagee is a Government department, both should be liable, jointly with the occupier, for unpaid rates, as is the case with the owner and the mortgagee of freehold land. It is not for the freeholder in the Waikato Riding to bear on his shoulder the burden of the Government’s lands for settlement scheme, or to make ' good the losses which the State Advances Department has made. The law should not favour one class at the expense of the other. The scheme of lands for settlement should provide for the payment of rates, if in areas, just as a scheme purchased by private enterprise would do.”
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Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 129, 26 May 1932, Page 8
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