Rates answers
• I find the recent Ruapehu District News highly misleading. The typical rates tabled on the back page are not based on the rates levied last year but on the 96/97 annual plan which wasn't followed due to the eruptions. Rate increases will all be higher for the south than shown. My rates at Orautoha will rise 16.5% on rates paid last year at a time when the works programme for the south has been excluded from the plan with the exception of Rimu and Tyne streets, Ohakune, improvements. On top of this increase, council proposes to raise about $3 million from loans, or 1 8% of income. The question has to be asked — why are we in this situation with massive increases and a deleted works programme? I can'f find the answers in the Ruapehu District News.
Winston Oliver,
Orautoha.
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Ruapehu Bulletin, Volume 14, Issue 688, 27 May 1997, Page 4
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142Rates answers Ruapehu Bulletin, Volume 14, Issue 688, 27 May 1997, Page 4
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