RATE COLLECTION

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 171, 12 March 1932, Page 4

RATE COLLECTION

VERY SATISFACTORY POSITIOfi IS DISCLOSED FOR YEAR. The extremely satisfactory positio; of the borough's rate collection was k vealed at Thursday night's meeting c the Rotorua Borough Council, whEi the chairman of the Legal and Fiiance Committee, Cr. G .Urquhart, K ported to the council upon the positio qf the rates accounts. For the current year rates total ling £12,249 6s 5d had been struci and as at March 10, £9,654 13s 7d c this amount had been collected, leavir. a total outstanding of £2584 12s 10; Arrears of rates outstanding as 3 March 31, 1931, were £3314 3s k and of this amount £1941 11s 7d ii« been collected, leaving' £1372 11s outstanding. ||| With arrears still outstanding fii 1931 and rates still to be collectefj§ a total amount of £3957 4s 7d remai:^ ed to be collected with three* weeks (M| the present financial year still to fijli The proportion of current rates cc® | lected at March 31, 1931, had b«l|| 78.7 per cent, while with three weeiB still to go, this year 78.8 per cenjw had already been collected. |j| "I think that speaks very well f® the office staff and the ratepayers 9| the borough," commented Cr. Urq® In reply to a question from Cr. 1®, Galbraith regarding the impositior. i®, the 10 per cent. penalty, the May® (Mr*. T. Jackson) said that under tfi; terms of the Act the imposition of tiS penalty had been advertised soni® time previously. Once the impositioM of the penalty had been advertiseM> the council was legally obliged to affi; ply it.. There had been a suggesticBp,1 to introduce legislation to give coucSJ cils some elasticity in the matter, b®ip at the present time the law was rig®.