THE RATES.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 531, 11 June 1909, Page 5

THE RATES.

WHY THEY ARE OVERDUE. Bather startling was the recent announceneat that at the end ot the lmancial year rates totalling ±,9<Ju(j neie overdue, not to mention some iSIiOU m rents Irom cit}owned properties, inquiry elicits the* laot that the real position is not so senous as it appeared, if scorns th.it, m the dear u ?? 8 , ago ot anmial Tal ue utingivheu tho basis on which the rates were waked out was always ready to haud-the rates were always due m two half-yearly intaJmonte on May 15 and November 10, l that a the latter case there was ample tuna to get the rates in before the end or March" JNov* that we have rating on the unimproved value a somewhat ditteunt system prevails Iho City Council does not value prWties for axation itself although it allc£s h * City Valuor in Mr. James Amw. As a matter of fact, Mr. Ames, although located a the Town Hall, and associated, Ve?«S body's mind with the municipah'ty, is the UVB IT?t Valuer ' as th °y «e hfs hEures anduntY \lT« Hgo ° n >« k S ana until those figures are supplied to tlii Government, Valuer-General, thev are not Wrt V n h ° a bas '° ™ to strike the rates. Since rating on the too P tn° a V l,: alue h l s - , bec ? m6 Enable too, the dates on which the rates become due have been put forward to Juno 26 and December 2. Sometimes, tho papers are not ready (owing, ]t „ a i ego d, Wov™. m(mt delay , n supplying figures) to make the due dates anything hke a rigTd rule time between the issue of the ratin<r D an or s for tho second half of tho year an^the end of. March, to allow for oVrtnary contingencies, particularly at a time l,iL ?£' present. It is allege/by nSpZwe'officSS that much severer methods to ensure the payment of tho rates are enforced in other New Zealand e. ies, than is tho case in Wcl- " t"cut VtZ °& th 6, faV - oUrite SSh? IVai1 Va il ,ablo aga,n - ™* rough anTroadv »^«p at s;u a i^ thcn^