SPECIAL RATES ON SCHOOLS.
AN INTERESTING POINT. Wellington, October 9. A case of interest to local bodies and education boards is before Mr Justice Chapman to-day. The Supreme Court is asked to determine whether or not an education board was liable for payment of special rates in respect of properties having been acquired by it, and used Cor the purpose of public schools, such properties having been liable to such special rates when acquired for the board." The parties were the Mayor and Councillors of the Borough of Napier who asked for a declaratory judgment aud the Hawke’s Bay Education Board, cited as defendants. The properties in question are used for the purposes <»T the Napier main school, a public school, as defined by the Education Act, 1911. The Board claimed that the properties were exempt; from special rates by virtue of Section 151 of the Education Act and Section 22 of the Rating Amendment Act, 1910. The corporation claimed that special rates were payable by the Board by virtue of Section 112 of the Local Bodies Loans Act,
1913, in that, education was one of he functions of the Stale.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2644, 11 October 1923, Page 3
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191SPECIAL RATES ON SCHOOLS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2644, 11 October 1923, Page 3
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