THE COUNTY RATES.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 3, Issue 203, 12 June 1914, Page 2

THE COUNTY RATES.

What Western End Wants.

To Pay Them in Waiuku.

Some time ago a lopiest was made In the Franklin Cnuntv

Coundl that they slnuld facilitatn

ilii» payment of county ratos liv the Waiuku district ratepayer*, bv periodically sending h lolloctor to Waiuku in rrcij w money. To 'ii.it rnjiiost a refusal was *»n\ At the .Tune mooting u | || lo Franklin County Council W. L West, secretary of tho Waiuku l'armeis r.'nion, u/iiin wrote : " I am instructed by tlm Waiuku brunch of tli" Farmers' Union to nrknn\\l«dgo receipt of your letter stating that tho Council emnot soo , its way clear to -end a man over to •collect rates, and respectfully a-k yiui lo reconsider \»ur decision, and roi|U»>st you to send some mo over say the first .Saturday in January, February and March to receive . rates Tho expense will 1... very ; small and tho advantage groat both to the Council ind tho ratepayers." Cr Campbell moved, That the , matter bo held over until the | January meeting tor reconsideration. <'r Lyons said if thoy scut a nun to Waiuku, then I'okniio, Drury and j Hunua would require iho same I thing. They should do nothI ing to create uncertainty in tho minds of ratepayers by ilJferiing it until January 'it was' hard enough to get in rates as it was, and if the impression were given tint a man would bo sent out, tho rat<-* would not be sont in. They should decide the mutter now.

Cr Rontill asked what hardship c was then- in sending to the Cmtail - a t-hpijue «t ti post ollire order for c their rates ':

Cr Campbell said be thought llio difficulty might he got over in an- | other way in Waiuku and Tuakau. :If the bank were approached it ; would receive moneys for payment j to tli*> Council's account. The chairman said lie had thought ! of that, but the hanks objected to he made more receiving agencies. Cr Campbell: If ten or twenty I people went into the hank here to I pay money Jut > the Council's account the hank would have to recoivo it. Cr Lyons said the question of exchange ought ! > be gone into. It I they could f;et ratepayer.-.' rheijues free of exchange that would bo the I solution. The chairman said lie did not see i how the request could he complied ! with. Crßenall moved, That the matter 1 ho referred to the Finance Committee. Seoocdel ly Cr Lyons, and , cmied.