BLUFF NEWS
RATES COLLECTION.— An appreciable increase in the current year’s rates collection is shown in figures supplied by the town clerk of Bluff, Mr H. A. Ferguson. Of a total levy of £5775 the sum of £2966 was collected by the last discount day, equal to 51.4 per cent. The amount collected In the corresponding period in the previous year was £2311 of a total levy of £5406, equal to 42.8 per cent. From borough records available this year’s appears to be the highest collection yet made to the discount day. RAILWAY OFFICERS. —A combined meeting of the Southland branch of the New Zealand Railways Officers’ Institute, held in the form of a social function, took place on Saturday night. Mr J. Curran presided. The guest of the evening was the New Zealand president of the institute, Mr M. J. Forde. An interesting account of the subjects dealt with at the recent conference held in Wellington was given by the delegates.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ST19420901.2.59
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Southland Times, Issue 24837, 1 September 1942, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
162BLUFF NEWS Southland Times, Issue 24837, 1 September 1942, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Southland Times. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in