Paparua Raises Urban And Rural Rates

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31082, 10 June 1966, Page 12

Paparua Raises Urban And Rural Rates

Rate increases for both the urban and rural parts of the county were agreed to when the Paparua County Council last light adopted its 1966-67 estimates, requiring it to raise a total of £152,915 for county purposes, compared with £136,632 last year.

Notice of motion was given to strike Sockburn and Hornby county town general rates of 0.95 d, up 0.05 d or 5.5 per cent on last year, and to strike a rural districts rate of Id, an increase of O.ld or 11 per cent. The rural rate equals 8s 4d more per £lOOO of valuation.

The council will collect another £65,000 on behalf of the Drainage, Transport and Catchment boards, making the total county levy £217,915.

No change was made in the high-pressure water-supply rate of £4 10s or sanitation charge of £5 10s, but the stock water rate was increased from scale charges less 10 per cent, to the full scale charges. The acting county chairman (Cr. D. H. Warren) said that of the total capital value of the county, £31,781,435, Government property on which grants were made in place of rates was valued at £2,931,275, and property on which no rates were paid was valued at £2,376,480. The rateable capital value of the county had risen by £1,656,130 over the year. Cr. Warren said that the estimates provided for the extension of the high-pressure water-supply system to Templeton and Prebbleton at

a cost of £27,600 in addition to the £16,400 spent last year. In the rural part of the county, £22,000 would be spent to give another six miles of sealed road, and the year should see the completion of the three-year programme of ke-rbing, channelling and footpaths' for rural townships. To develop and maintain reserves and recreation areas, £22,315 was provided, and the Hornby programme of kerbing, channelling and footpaths should be completed. Jointly with Waimairi county and Riccarton borough, the council would meet its share of the £40,000 motor-vehicle testing station at Sockburn.

In the detailed estimates, major reconstruction and sealing works included Mafffiisons and Hoskyns roads, Calders road, Osterholts road, Robinsons road from Shands road to Springs road, Waterloo road, Marshs road, Trents road and Selwyn road. Total expenditure on rural area road works was put at £54,406, compared with actual expenditure last year of £63,152. In the Sockburn county town, £18,957 was allocated to roads, against £27,584 spent last year, and for Hornby county town, the estimated expenditure was £13,238, compared with £12,678 spent last year.