MANAWATU COUNTY
COUNCIL'S DEBIT BALANCE
(Special to the "Evening Post.") PALMERSTON N., This Day.
At the annual meeting of the Manawatu County Council yesterday the chairman, Mr. W. E. Barber, referred to the fact that the year had closed with a debit balance, the expenditure having absorbed the credit balance carried forward from last year and gone a little beyond it. This was largely due to the increased costs the council was obliged to meet arising out of the Government's legislation.
Councillor J. Boyce drew attention to the fact that the hospital levy over the last five years had increased by 120 per cent. He said that there was a very urgent need for a different system for basing the levies, such as a population basis, which had been urged for years. .
Dealing with administrative costs, the clerk, Mr. A. K. Drew, pointed out that these were among the lowest in the Dominion.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 135, 9 June 1937, Page 3
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