A CAUTION.
[to the editor.] Sir—A person is, I believe, going nund to the inhabitants of the town and demanding rates from them on behalf of the Arahnra Road Board. The said rate bßiug a retrospective one, and struck under the rateing clauses of the County West land Act, 1868, it is in my opinion illegal for the Board to collect from Kumara any rate. The following are the reasons I have for forming the above opinion :—l. The only rate roll in existence at the time was the old Arahura Road district Roll, and on that roll not one person in Kumara was rated.—2. The rate being attempted to be collected was struck on the rate roll of the district for March, 1877, to March, 1878, being the assessment roll provided by rating act, 1876, on that roll the board never struck a rate, or it would have been publicly notified.—3. The rate, as imposed, is only 9d in the pound, and was struck by the board from July, 1876, to March, 1877. Now that Knmara is a borough, and the rating clauses of the County Westland Act, 1868, are repealed by the rating act, 1876, I would advise the inhabitants to refuse payment and have a test case tried in the R.M. Court.—l am, <fcc.,
Tim Bobbin.
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Kumara Times, Issue 289, 7 September 1877, Page 2
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219A CAUTION. Kumara Times, Issue 289, 7 September 1877, Page 2
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