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Whakatane rates: Bill shock for commercial property owner
Rates on his other commercial property at 15 George St have gone up by 21.1%. This lower increase reflected the building’s body corporate covering waste collection costs. “The component for the rubbish went up by about 50% on my other property,” Wickham …