COUNTY AFFAIRS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 February 1940, Page 6

COUNTY AFFAIRS

MEETING IN MASTERTON FINANCE COMMITTEE. OVER .98 PER CENT OF RATES COLLECTED. A meeting of the finance committee of the Masterton County Councl was held this morning, the chairman (Mr H. H. Mawley) presiding. The County Clerk (Mr J. C. D. Mackley) reported that the epunty fund account was in debit at the Bank of New Zealand to the extent of £689 14s lid. The position of other accounts was as follows: —Bridges Loan (.1938) account, cr„ £11,062 12s sd; Bridge Fund Account, £74 4 2s lOd. Receipts since the last meeting totalled £14.064 2s lOd, £13.379 17s 7d of which represented rates for the current financial year.

Subsidy claims made on the Main Highways Board and the Public Works Department in connection with road maintenance and construction works, and outstanding at this date totalled £4,693 5s 3d.

The County Clerk submitted a statement of rates, levies, collections, and outstanding (and discount) amounts allowed for the current financial year down to January 26, .1940, which disclosed that of a tola! levy (after discount! of £26.894 15s sd, £26.446 6s. or 98,3 per cent of the rates was collected at that date this year, a position. which has not been reached in the last ton years. The amount outstanding was £448 9s sd. .-’nd it was expected that a substantial proportion of that sum would be collected prior to the close of the current financial year. The percentage of rates collected for last year was slightly in excess of the collections for the previous year, namely 98.1 per cent, and approximately I per cent greater than for the rating period ended 193.1,