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Date:
Time:
25.11.86
2.15 to 5.00
Reporter:
JPM
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SMS:
2 conservative.
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Only 1% appeals, which would be very very
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MR CHEONG:
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Mr Chairman, I just want a final question;
it is not in relation to the Urban Council's market, there is a
market called a 'temporary wholesale market'?
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CRV:
The Ag and Fish!
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MR CHEONG:
Yes, what is happening on that score
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DFS?
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DFS:
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We are in the same position with regard
to Ag and Fish's temporary wholesale markets as we are with the
Urban Council and Regional Council market stalls. I think we have had an opportunity to review the whole question, both before we received the Director of Audit's report and since, and the more I
look at it the more I am convinced that we must proceed to some form
of amendment of the law; there is no point in doggedly following the
present law and wasting a lot of money, a lot of time and a lot of
staff in order to pick up a small amount of revenue, much of which
goes back to the Urban Council anyway, when they can pick up a great
deal more by simply increasing the rents.
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SMS:
I would welcome that!
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DFS:
I think we have now come to the end of
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that one and we must now deal with it, either in the way suggested
this afternoon by amending the law to enable us to collect a block
rate amount from the Councils or alternatively, to go one step further
and to exempt the market stalls from rating altogether. I think those
are the alternatives.
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DFS:
CHAIRMAN:
Any further questions? If not, thank you!
Thank you.