RATE COLLECTION

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 24, 12 February 1937, Page 7

RATE COLLECTION

Maysr Appeal* Fgr J G® Per 1 SAHSFACTQRY POSIHON i — 1 SatisfaciioB with ti©, position as. regards outstanding rates was voiced by the Mayor, Mr G. A. Maddison, at the meeting of ihe Hastings Borougji Couneil last night, when he also appealed to the eitizei\s t©, record a 100 per icent. eollectios of the presenf year's rates. "The p9sit\oa is partiopl^ly gratffyin^ % light, of the, okr t^.infng some years ago," he said. "A few years ago the qutatandiBig ratea amounted to over £7 000, hub, to datp tbis has been reduced to £1050, the arrear% in rosfes collected. this *yeay alone being £2145. "j He, s®p that af, the presqnt timo there was, only £14 outstanding * f of 1932-33, £26, for \933-34, £373 for 193435 for- 1935*3$, «W© are iflr deed indebted to^he citizehs for havr ing met their obligations in th^. m&P" ner," he said. '■ Iteferrisig to the collection of tJh© prer tent year's rates, Mr Maddison said that" up to. the qlosing hour yesterday £28,396 had "been paid in out of % total rate strpcls of £42,370, the ainonnt collected being' 67.02 per- cent^ This was about 2 per cent. better thap at the, ^re$pondiug-; date, l%st, year, "Thflpgjk this is v©iy pleajisg iOf deed/' fc&.faid, '-'there. is stift about . £14000 reggiripg to be. paid beforq , Mofkday pighfc next. to m%k© it. a 100 per eent. collection. I do earnesfly apf pe%l to ^f^ryofte. tft pay hia r^tfs and ^ mahe the Qbllec^iofc 100 pq£ cent,, : ong." He pointed out. that, a§&\vfaing that j th« collection was 95 per cent. the outf | ftMdiflS & per- cent, xepresented » fate ; of t^orftfths of apenny, aid, thi» must | ineviifrbly he % fhotof fn thg, Qdhsidei%tion «f next year's rate. If the fuif • amourit struek were raised it would as- i sist m keeping down th© ra,te. ne?t ; . yea?. *" , . . i Mr- Maddison also- pointed out that %% xe^uited by la^r to My te tH Sdspital and Rivers Boarda the full aimount of the levies that these local bodies made On Hastings, even though the full an^o^^t vcas npt cqb leeted hy the cosncfl. "It has bedu s.uggested to me again quit© leceutly th,at the, couucil should grant a special diseount of 2i per cent. for the. prompt. payment of l-ates,'* continijied; the Mayor. ''Hotvever, | • consider that this would be a fallaey, becauso the couneil budg^ets for a cey, tain afnoqnt of revenue and allowanee would have to be mad© for the gianfc ing of this epecial diseount. This would mean thas those people who did not pay promptly would h|t really recef^e the. benefit but that those who. did no| pay so promptly weuld be penalised by the extrn 2|" per cent.'* .