RATEPAYERS DISFRANCHISED
TAUPO, Nov. 18. | ! It will coiue as a surprise to maiiy ! Taupo ratepayers ou learning the eft'ect j of the recent Loi-al Elections and Polls-) ■ Amendnient Aet, .1946. Seetiou A pro-! vides for the abolition of the oceupiers' i qualiJication in boroughs and towu districts. - - .. Tlrus, ia tenns of the section, 110 person is entitled to have his uame 011 the ■ roll by virtue of an oceupier's qualiliea- ; i tion. The effeet of this provision so far . as it affeets the Taupo. Town District, i will be to disfranchise automatically i approximately 50 per cent. of those on ! ; the town board roll. It is probable that no other local j body area in New Zealand will be so * , severel}' alfected. The nia.joritv of ratepayers pav their rates and, it is clainied, should thus be entitled to some f consideration in the government of the town, for it is probable that mere than half of the rate revenue of the Taupo Town Board is eontributed by ratepayers who wTill tlius have no vote. This is a elear exaniple with ;i vengeance of taxation without reprv sentatiou. thev sav.
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Chronicle (Levin), 19 November 1946, Page 2
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