COUNTY COUNCIL FINANCES
Our Own Correspondent.)
)epression Followed by Rising Costs
(From
WAIPUKURAU, Last Night. •'Our finances are not good at the. present tirne," said the chairman of the Patangata County Couneilt Mr C. Pattison, in replying to a settler's request for the provision of a new Toad. ' ' We have passed through a depression, during which we had to reduce rates, aijji now we are faced with rising costs. Ail the sauje, every settler is entitled to a metalled road." "It seeras tljat in these times, when we have not overmuch money, charity should begin at horne," remarked Mr G. F. McH^rdy later in the meeting ^yhen a request for assistance for the Far East Relief Fund was- under' discussion. "We admit it is a worthy objeet, but Toading is rcally our main work," said Mr C. B. Edgecombe, who moved that subseription lists for the fund should be ppeqed by the ccwncil. This course was agreed upon. " • ~""r" •
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 40, 10 November 1937, Page 12
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