RATES ON NATIVE LANDS.
New Plymouth, Dec. 4
Throughout Taranaki many local bodies are much concerned at the difficulty and impossibility of recovering Native rates under the existing laws, the cost of pressing for payment being prohibitive. Even when judgment is obtained, it is almost impossible to recover the amounts. The Patea County Council is affected on this account, and its clerk forwarded a letter to a meeting of the Taranaki County Council. In it the clerk slated that he understood that during last session the matter was brought forward, and it was asserted by Native M’s.P. that the Natives paid their rates, but the county council’s experience was decidedly the reverse. In very few instances did Natives realise their obligations, and they were constantly putting obstacles in the way, and making promise? that were seldom fulfilled. In many cases, including their own, it hac become questionable whether it was worth while going to the trouble under the existing circumstances to strike Native rates at all, as it only misled the Council by so doing, an apparent asset being practically valueless. Still there were local bodies whose rates ran into many hundreds of pounds with little hope of recovery. He suggested that the following course would relieve the position ; —That in cases where laud was held by several owners, or where ownership was not ascertained, that the councils might simply send a list of the rates owing to the Government, and that these rates should be registered as a charge against the laud in the same manner that survey charging orders were made, and that no timber dealings with the land would be registered until the claim for rates was satisfied. A clause might lie inserted giving
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The Taranaki County Council decided to co-operate in the endeavour to secure amendment of the existing state of things.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1035, 5 December 1912, Page 3
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325RATES ON NATIVE LANDS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1035, 5 December 1912, Page 3
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