Higher Rural Area Rate For Paparua Reading

Press, Volume CV, Issue 30980, 9 February 1966, Page 14

Higher Rural Area Rate For Paparua Reading

To enable a speed-up in sealing and other road work in the rural part of the county, the Paparua County

Council at its meeting on Monday night, agreed to increase the rural district rate by onetenth of a penny for 1966-67. Proposals to raise a development loan of £50,000 were deferred. It was stated by the clerk (Mr A. Kelly) that the rate increase from the present 9/10ths of a penny to Id would raise revenue from £50,302 this year to £58,800 and provide £40,000 instead of £29,000 on the old rate for roading work. Mr Kelly said that the proposed rate increase would yield another £4OOO in National Roads Board subsidy, and allow nearly 50 per cent more new sealing work to be done. He estimated that 10 miles of road could be sealed in 1966-67. With the increase, county rates on a house property valued at £3500 would rise by £1 9s 2d to £l4 Ils 8d: on a five-acre property without house, valued at £lBOO, up 15s Id to £7 10s Id: on a £28,000 farm property, up £ll 15s lid to £ll7 Is lid; and on the Islington freezing works, valued at £927.325, up £386 7s 8d to £3863 17s Id. The rural district committee proposed works programmes for expenditure of £33,900 in 1966-67, of £44,250 in 1967-68 and of £39,200 in 1968-69; but the council decided to defer detail con- : sideration.

Royal Tour. Medieval court jesters, bats, Cretan warriors and African natives dancing “The Frog” formed part of a masquerade that greeted the Queen and Prince Philip tonight as the calypso island of Trinidad gave them a colourful welebme.—(Port-'of-Spain, Feb. 8.)