RATE DEMANDS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 158, 22 July 1937, Page 4

RATE DEMANDS

Borough Assessments To Go Out on Monday Week LEVIES CAUSE INCREASE Next Monday week the outward mail from the Hastings Borough • Council offlces will be an exceptionally heavy one; on that day over 2900 rat© demands "will be sent out by post. This year the demand i» based on a comprehensive late of 7.3 pence in the £, and is estimated to bring in a grand total of £39,218. The Borough Council itself, however, will receive only fourfifths of this amount, approximately £31,900, the balance going to other local bodies to meet their respeetive levies on the borough ratepayers. Tnough the compreBensive rate is greater than last year, the actual borough rate has been slightly decreased, the demands from the other local bodies all being heavier this year than last. The Hospital Bo^rd levy amounts to 1.18 pence in the £» estimated to bring in " £6339, the Rivers Board levy, .13 pence in the £, will bring in £698, and the Harbour Board levy, the first for a number of years is .14 pence in the £ and will total £752. These three levies aggregate 1.45 pence, as against 5.85 pence rate of the borough. Accompanying the rate demands this year will be a concisely-compiled pamphlet setting out the various Seatares of the comprehensive* rate and pointing out that, though che majority of the local bodies iu New Zealand have increased their rates and/or levies this year, the Hastings Borough Council has made an actual, though slight, reduction. •