HOSPITAL RATES
POSITION IN WAIKATO NATIVES’ SMALL LEVY (From Our Own Correspondent.) HAMILTON, Thursday. Sympathy with ratepayers in the Waikato Hospital district who are levied with Maori rates in addition to their own, was expressed by members of the Waikato Hospital Board at the annual meeting to-day. The Minister of Health wrote pointing out the provisions of the Amendment to the Rating Act, enabling the value of native land on which rates are incollectable, to be deducted from the rateable capital value of the land upon which levies are made. It was stated that this should be of some assistance to hospital boards, in whose districts there were large areas of native land upon which rates were uncollectable. Members expressed the view that as one-fifth of the native population of New Zealand was in the Waikato, it was most inequitable that settlers should have to bear the whole burden. The amount of natives’ rates was neglegible. The board decided to inform the department, that the position is most unsatisfactory as the European settlers are obtaining no relief whatever..
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 328, 13 April 1928, Page 11
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