HIGHWAYS BOARD RATES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue 3, 10 September 1880, Page 2

HIGHWAYS BOARD RATES.

We have been asked to advise a number of ratepayers as to what they should do in respect of rates due to the Manawatu Highways Board. It appears a number of the settlers in outlying districts who have been 'served with notices of rates due are 'anxious to get rid of the responsibility of ''dwing" money £6 $i& HighWays Bsar!dy lest they should be put to the expense, of a summons. For the information pf stibh we, may explain that Mr Ward' dfecjded some few weeks ago'that* his' 'award aabetween the old Board and the new Carnarvon

and Foxton Boards sh»uld be that each of the new Boards should take all of the rates owing in its own district.? This recommendation the-Qo^ verhment have intimated their aeceptauce of, and therefore it may be assumed that the whole of the rates owing in the Foxton district belong to the new Foxton Board, and those owing in the Oarnarvon-Sandon distiict to the new Carnarvon Board. Of course it is not for us to dictate to the old Board what they should do, but we have no doubt the members would see that if they accepted rates owing in Foxton and Carnarvon when the .Magistrate .mad/3 his award r they would be disturbing the arrangement then agreed upon.. tiobkingJat all the circumstances, therefore, we do not for one" moment expect the old Board would think of summoning defaulting ratepayers in Sandon, Foxton or Carnarvon, and we therefore advise all settlers in .those districts to hold on to their Highways B Jard rates until the new Boards are fairly started, when those bodies will of course at once collect them. While upon this subject we ma/ mention that we think the settlers have good ground of complaint at the delay of the Government in proclaiming the new districts. The matter has been in hand a long time, and if due speed had been employed the new Boards would have been at work before this. The necessity of issuing the proclamations has been urged upon them, and we hope shortly j to hear that the notices are issued constituting the new districts.