By ELIAS LARI
THE Mt Hagen City authority resumed its job of cleaning the city after two weeks of protest, which turned the city into a “cowboy town”.
City manager Richard Culligan said yesterday the protest was to show their frustrations over unrealised land rate revenues needed to keep the city clean.
Mr Culligan said all operations ceased after the National Court ruled that there was no delegation of power given to the city authority to collect land tax under the new Organic Law.
He said his men came back on the street because there was no order in the city with two weeks of rubbish laying every where and a rise in pick-pocketing.
He said it cost money to keep the city clean and they needed money to buy fuel, pay wages for 130 workers and meet operational costs for the office.
He said the city authority had to half its staff and reduce costs on telephones and vehicles.
He said the city had now appointed the provincial government to collect the entire land rate in a short period and to remit the collection to the city authority.

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