WELLINGTON RATES.
REDUCTION PROPOSED. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, May 6. The ordinary general rate of the Wellington City Council will be the same this year as last year, but the reduction in the Hospital Board levy will be passed on to the ratepayers, said the Mayor (Sir T. C. A. Hislop) at a special meeting of the council this afternoon, when the estimates committee presented its report and drafts estimates providing for an expenditure of £826,372 for the financial year 1940-41 were adopted. The proposed expenditure by committees is £291,426 and non-controllable and other expenditure £534,946.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 134, 7 May 1940, Page 4
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