PRIVILEGE OF DEFENCE
FORCES PAY NO RATES DEVONPORT COMPLAINS Devonport finds that being the centre of military and naval activity is rather an expensive privilege. VEARLY one-fourth of the borough’s area of 900 acres is set a Dart for the training of defence forces." If the land were used for building purposes it would be returning about £2,300 in rates, whereas the Government makes a grant of £ 45u a vear to the borough. The Devonport delegates to the Municipal Conference at Nelson, last week, sought to gain support for a remit that the Government should contribute more liberally in cases like Devonport. The Mayor of Wellington said that his city had failed to get better treatment on a very similar question. The conference declined to support Devonport.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 316, 29 March 1928, Page 10
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127PRIVILEGE OF DEFENCE Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 316, 29 March 1928, Page 10
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