PAY RATES EARLY
Mayor Makes Appeal To Citizens i - • MR. WATSON'S EXAMPIE "I make this apptml now to the pcopio to pay theii* xate§ eatlyy for it moiuis qxiite^a lot to tlie couacil; 9 the Mayor, Mr. G. A. Maddison, at the. meeting of tlxo Hastings Borough Coun-- • qil.la.st evoning, He pointed out that prompt payment of ratcs would ifxeMX very substantxal saving in interest on overdrafb and would lead to other cconomies ixx the worlcing during tho year. . . "So far, I mnsfc say, the position very satisfactory," he added. " Already just ovox' £1000 of the present year's rates has been paid, X would lilce to acknowledge the record set up by. Mr. Wilkio Watson, who for a nupxber of years has always been th© first to come into the office and pay his rates, He sets a very fine example, and hui action is greatly apprcciated. ' ' The statement. of outstanding rates xevealed that £816 7/- hacl been coilected since April p last, leaving £1660 16/1 still outstanding. Tfie borough solicitor is to undertake colleetion of rates in arrears to tlxe extent of a year or more where the ratepayers concerned lxave not answered the council 's re-: quests for payment.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 177, 13 August 1937, Page 4
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