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Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 138, 19 May 1892, Page 2

IT! M UNTAGD E , , Auctioneer, Valuator, Land, and General Commission Agent, i General Auction Marts, ■ THE SQUARE, PALMEBSTON N., * —AND — [ THE FEILDING SALE ROOMS. Sales conducted in all parts of the district. Accounts rendered day after sale. ! W. A. SANDILANDS, I BARRISTER AND SOLICITOR, f Fergusson Street, Feilding. t ' MONEY to Lend, in Large or Small Sums, on the security j of Freehold Land, at Current Rates I of Interest. Town Properties ac--1 cepted if ample margin be offered. ; T7IDMUNP GOODBEHERE |' f JJj Feilding. Commission Agent, Insubance Agent, n Land Agent, K Loan Agent, ? House Agent. MONEY to Lend on Rural Lands at r lowest current rates. $' Rents and debts collected. !• Property owners desirous of leasing or r, selling same are invited to communicate.

t The members of local bodies sir© generally much exercised on the interesting subject of the collection* of * rates, but they seldom go so far as did the Wairarapa North County councillors when they passed a resolution :— " That it be a recommendation to the Government to empower all local authorities to impose a penalty of not more than 10 per cent on all special rates in arrear for a period of three months after the demand is made." No doubt the idea uppermost in their minds was that, should the Government create such a law, the fear of having to pay the extra ten per cent would cause the rates to flow in rapidly. There could be no greater mistake. "We do not think the House, the majority of the members being, no douM, in arrears with their own rates where they have them to pay, would pass an act legalising such an imposition. The true remedy already lies in the hands of local bodies, because it is provided that all outstanding rates, and they come under this heading the day after the rates become payable, may be sued for in the Resident Magistrate's Court for their recovery. The plan of selecting by ballot, at each meeting of a local body where the unpaid rates have become abnormally large, of names to be summoned, has - answered well in this part of i the country, and we would recommend our friends in the Wairarapa to adopt it. We do not like tho idea of appealing to "the Government"