OHOPE A LIABILITY
WE have stumbled upon evil days when Ohope Beach, one of the greatest, if not the greatest community and tourist assets this district possesses, can be described as a liability. This term, although it was ineant only from a rating viewpoint conveys to the public at large a complete misconception of the thriving and growing settlement along the foreshore of a beach regularly described as without peer in the Dominion. For too long Ohope has been the unwanted 'Cinderella' of rate-minded local authorities whose only barometer is the revenue drawn from section-holders. Little sympathy can be expected from an authority which draws only £314 and is forced to spend annually £200 in excess of .that figure. Now that the Government has vetoed the formation of a Town Board at Ohope, it is the duty of the County Council to formulate a defined policy of planned development, and proceed not only] to put it into vigorous prosecution, but to also discover ways and means of adjusting the futile rating proportion, which in its present form is little more than a farce.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 3, 4 September 1945, Page 4
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183OHOPE A LIABILITY Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 3, 4 September 1945, Page 4
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