LOCAL BODIES
("Post" Special Commissioner.)
INQUIRY INTO QUESTION OF REDUCTION IN RENTALS
Wellington, Friday. In the House of Representatives to-day, Mr. F. Jones (Labour, Dunedin South), asked the Prime Minister whether he would give an assurance that it was not the intention of the Government to repeal the provision in the National Expenditure Adjustment Act providing that local bodies should not he required to reduce rentals to an arnount below five per cent of the unimproved value. as shpwh hy the district valuation roll. The Prime Minister, the Rt. Ho.n. G. W. Forbes, said this question had been raised by several members, who had presented representatipns from various lpcal bodies, and on the other hand requests for relief had heen reeeived from lessees. It was the Government's intention to give an opportunity this session for an inquiry to be conducted into the matter. It would bring down lan amendmteiit,) which would be referred to a Select Committee, in order that evidenqe might be taken for and against the proposal for the repeal of the provision mentioned.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 365, 29 October 1932, Page 5
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176LOCAL BODIES Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 365, 29 October 1932, Page 5
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