COUNTY COUNCIL RATES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 78, 19 April 1937, Page 7

COUNTY COUNCIL RATES

Effect of Recent Legislation MR F. B. LOGAN'S C0MMENT "Since the last meeting of the council, many ratepayers have expressed alarm at the prospect of a rise in rates this year, those mostly concemed being dairy farmers, who say that their farms are already oterburdened with rates, taxes and high produetive costs," said Mr. F. B. Logan, chairman of the Hawke's Bay County Council in an interview to-day. "I would say to dairy-farming rate payers that the members of the County Council fully realise that dairy land is already carrying its full load of rates, and that it is the eQuncillors' hope to avoid raising the county rate if humanly possible. But if the ratepayers expeet the county to render the samo seivice that it has done in the past, then, on account of recent legislation there must undoubtedly be a rise in rates. "I should say, but without aceurate knowledge at present, that the hospital rate will be higher this year. "The county, like most business conceins, has no option but to pass on the iqereased costs, and th© man who ulticiately carried all the increased costs is the farmer. ■ • "Where this almost daily rise in costs of commodities will lead us, J dare not think, but I would imagine the ultimate destination to be one of mueh ombarrassment. "