Conisbrough Rate Cut by Nine Shillings

Conisbrough Urban Council are to levy a rate of 20 shillings in the £ – a decrease of 9s. This was decided at a special finance committee meeting on Monday and confirmed by the full council on the same evening.

Chairman of the finance committee. Ald. Ben Roberts said the rateable value of the district had increased from £69,544 to £103,959. The old urban raise and be reduced from 13/6 to 9/3d and the County rate from 15/6 to 10/9d.

The amount of money needed by the Urban Council an increase from £43,718 to £51,998

“The decrease in the rate and the new valuation will mean that tenants of older houses will have a small reduction in the amount they will have to pay and tenants of new houses will have to pay a little more the average,” said Ald Roberts.

The council decided to object to the NCB action in raising the rents of Coal Industry houses in the Ellershaw Lane housing estate. Shortly after the Council had increased the rents of their houses by 3/1d, the NCB had done the same thing on their estate.

Councillor J Prendergast, Chairman of the Housing Committee, moved an amendment to the Housing Committee minutes that they should write to the NCB, asking for an early meeting to discuss the matter. It was a name you swear agreed to do so

An application to divert the Doncaster Sheffield bus route through Conanby and Conisbrough will be objected to by the council, it was decided.

The corporation had applied to run buses through Conisbrough and make an increase in the fare from St Andrews to the Star hotel from 2d to 2 ½d