A MISLEADING STATEMENT.
AT Tuesday night’s meeting of the Borough Council, tlie Mayor, in a written statement criticising the Fire Board estimates, said: “If tlie Board’s estimates are approved we simply cannot pay the account in full. In other words, on the 31st March there will be a debit balance which the Councillors, jointly and severally, may be called upon to pay.” Why the Mayor should have made this statement, which is entirely misleading so far as the Fire
Board is concerned, we leave our
readers to guess. Here is the law on the subject, vide section 23, subsection (2) of the Fire Brigades Act:
“If any local authority liable to contribute under this Act fails to*pay any such quarterly payment within thirty days as aforesaid, the amount of such payment, together with interest thereon at tin* rate and computed in manner aforesaid, may be paid to the Board by the Minister of Finance, and deducted by him from any moneys payaple to such local authority by way of subsidy under any Act, or may he recovered as a debt due from such local authority to the Board. ’ Further comment i- needless.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2599, 28 June 1923, Page 2
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192A MISLEADING STATEMENT. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2599, 28 June 1923, Page 2
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