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Our new assessment professes to put the proper value on property as in Home countries, and on this figure we pay as rates some 4 per cent, as opposed to 15 shillings in the at Home. In Shanghai, I understand, they pay some 11 or 13 per cent.; Tientsin 11 per cent. Resolution 2 (b) will cost you an extra 1.25 or one-thirteenth increase on your present rates for this year when the capital cost will have been met. Under this head there would be a rise of about 1/6th and under capital a rise of 1/7th. Next
You year the increase will be well under the ith rise. will no doubt remember that half the expenditure this year will be an asset to the Municipality.
Resolution 1 (a)
will cause a rise this year of 1/13th. Resolution 2 (c) will cause a rise from 4 to 7.1 per cent, or a 75 per cent.
increase.
Having considered the matter in the foregoing light the Council thought it desirable that measures which would in the ordinary course have been put forward next February,
should be dealt with at once.
We have had the benefit of a meeting with the French
Municipal Council when we were informed that they contem-
plate a considerable increase in their police force, but
are unable to consider the question of a fence.
In publishing the Agenda it was thought that the
more convenient form in the short time would be that of
alternative resolutions. We place these short explanations
before you and hope they will be sufficient to guide you
to a decision. We do not wish to persuade you to either
or any course.
Improvements to Lelephone Communication.
I now turn to this subject, which I propose to put
before you to-day as we consider it couples itself with the
former in no uncertain way.