GOVERNMENT LOANS TO LOCAL BODIES.
[BY TELEGRAPH.— riIESS ASSOCIATION.] Welling ton, Thursday. The Colonial Treasurer supplies the following information respecting tne Government Loans to Local Bodies Act. A great deal of attention has been given to this Act, and its sister Act, the Local Bodies Loan Act. A precis of the two Acts was sent to every loc il boJv in the colony. It was then determined to invite applications from local bodies for loans amounting in all to £200,000, authorised to be granted this year. Applications were to be sent in by the 30th No\ ember. It was resolved, as the applications were not expected to be in excess <>f the total amount, "To allow applications to be sent in for loans for which a local body had only lesohed to a^k the ratepayers' consent before that consent was granted." Fortunately the total amount comes just within the total available, and no pro rata reduction has to be made ; otherwise it would have been unfair to place a loan unauthorised by the ratepayers upon the same footing as those which had received their sanction. The total applications received were for £250,6(>7, from which had to be deducted the amounts included for the second year, amounts asked to pay off overdrafts (which could not be assented to under the Act), and applications not sent in in time. After these deductions were made there remained a total number of formal applications to be dealt with, amounting to £199,744, divided as follows:— Counties, £127,704 ; Road Boards, £00,380; Town Boards, £1400; {Boroughs, £3000; River Boards, £ln00; total, £199,974. It is probable, though these are all provisionally granted, that the ratepayers will refuse to ratify some of them. The Colonial Treasurer has intimated to local bodies whose applications came in too late, that he will consider them if the ratepayers reject some of the loans provisionally granted. The whole of the replies to local bodies will be posted to-morrow.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2254, 18 December 1886, Page 2
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