PROTESTS FROM RATEPAYERS
LOANS BOARD COMMUNICATION In answer to the Council's formal protest against the raising of the loan, the Secretary of the Local Government Loans: Board replied to the effect that this had been noted and would be considered by the Board in conjunction -with the Hos* pital Board's application for the loan, when such came to hand. A similar assurance was given by the Prime Minister in reply to the letter addressed, to him. Discussing the protests from the ratepayers meetings, in which the Council was asked to refuse to collect the rate- until justice was; obtained for the ratepayers, Cr Mo Gougan said that the Government's reaction to such a measure would bo merely to withhold its subsidies and thereby paralyse the Council".'; activities altogether. lb was decided that a copy of the Council's letter to the Bay of Plenty Hospital Board and the Loans Board be forwarded to the Secretar3 r , Rangitaiki Plains Branch. N.Z. Farmers' Uniqn, and the Chairman of the Taneatua Ratepayers' Meeting and that all matters in relation to the proposed £45,000 Bay of Plenty Hos, pital Board loan be referred to. full council.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 59, 26 March 1943, Page 5
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191PROTESTS FROM RATEPAYERS Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 59, 26 March 1943, Page 5
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