COUNTY OVERDUE RATES.
At Saturday’s meeting of the Horowhenua County Council, Councillor Venn complained that certain ratepayers had been served with a notice to pay their 10 per cent, extra on rates which were overdue, just after they had paid the overdue rates, otherwise they would be summoned. He deemed this somewhat arbitrary, and thought the 10 • per cent, extra should be carried forward on to next year’s rates. The acting clerk said that it was held by such an authority in municipal law as Mr Martin to be impossible in point of law to recover this 10 per cent, extra when once the main rates were paid, and this opinion was backed up by a magistrate’s decision. Councillor Venn said the posi tion was a disconcerting one. Evidently the claim was only a bluff. He thought that another opinion besides Mr Martin’s should be obtained to let the Council know where it was. He moved in the meantime that no receipt, be given for rates six months overdue unless accompanied by :o per cent extra. The motion was carried.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 453, 16 March 1909, Page 3
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180COUNTY OVERDUE RATES. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 453, 16 March 1909, Page 3
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