NATIVE RATES.
In reply to a request from Mr Vernor. Reed, M.P., to answer a number of questions on the matter of native rating, Mr Mora, clerk to the Waitomo County Council, replied as follows: —In reply to your letter re native rates: When I waß appointed clerk to this County in 1911, native lands were not even ratable on the rolls. They had all been written off with the exception of about three properties. Since then I instructed the Valuation Department to include all native lands on the roll in the name of owners or nominated owners. So far the defaulters owe only two years' rates; the Act provides that I can collect rates on native lands owing three years. This year I propose to sue all defaulters under the 1910 Act. which I am quite satisfied will meet with my requirements. Of the three native propertied that were ratable prior to 1911, I sued two and they both paid the amounts into court.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 603, 17 September 1913, Page 4
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165NATIVE RATES. King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 603, 17 September 1913, Page 4
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