No more rates please
• The meetings called by Mayor Workman to facilitate the approval of the Ruapehu District Council' s proposed road up-grading programme will, I hope, send the message back to the mayor and his councillors that no additional rates should be levied to pay for capital works. In 1987, at the end of the late lamented Waimarino County Council, my property at Karioi with a Government Valuation of $585,000 attracted rates of $3846.79. Six years on, in spite of the promised savings of amalgamation, that same property, with a current GV of $540,000, demands a rate to the Ruapehu District Council of $6007.09. Any Government which raised taxes by that amount would be thrown out of office. Mayor Workman, councillors and chief executive Houston - just how much more money do you need to run the show without requiring special extra-rates to undertake capital works?
Ron
Frew, Ohakune.
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Ruapehu Bulletin, Volume 11, Issue 528, 22 March 1994, Page 4
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149No more rates please Ruapehu Bulletin, Volume 11, Issue 528, 22 March 1994, Page 4
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