HOW THE MONEY GOES.

Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 116, 15 May 1920, Page 12

HOW THE MONEY GOES.

i [ITEMS IW THE CITY ACCOVKTS. I OUTER OOMAIX PROPO-ALS. Speaking this morning about the estimates adopted by the City Council on 'Thursday night the Mayor, Mr. J. H. Gunson. mentioned the vote of £80,445 i under the heading of special works. "It |is realised,'' he said, "that it is not possible.in these estimates to go into every detail of a number of the works with which the Council is proceeding, as the Council allocates to those committees responsible the amount required for the administration of their respective departments. But details are always submitted from time to time, and other details are shown in the estimates themselves. As to tbe details of the works committee vote for this year the following items will make it perfectly clear how it has been allocated: City map (being kept up to date) -1-00, Hobson Street baths £2415, including £715 for improvements to laundry; Shelly Beach baths £500, including painting'and repairs; Parnell baths £320, bathing sheds £20, clocks £120, nightsoil collection £400 (for revs-, nant of the old service), Harkin's Point farm, winch is the nightsoil damp and is used for grazing the Council's horses and for growing oat crops, etc., for the stables, £350; morgue £100. Then in the streets section there is- the traffic control? and justice rote, £730: publiclighting, including the whole of the electric and gas lighting of the city, £7370; tree planting £200, maintenance of public conveniences £2100, and the street upkeep, including tarring and sanding footpaths and roads, -repairs, new metalling, watering, sewer maintenance and cleansing work. £64,800. . "With regard to tbe parks vote," added the. Mayor, "as I pointed out in my memorandum the expenditure proposed is not • £15,000, but £13,350. Of the £15,000 vote £ISOO is for endowment, property repairs and purchases. These include bouses, etc.. on the various endowments at Ponsonby, -ewton and elsewhere.

OUR CENTRAL BEAUTY SPACE. "As to the scheme for the improvement of the Outer Domain it is only fair to tbe city engineer to say that he did not recommend an expenditure of £45,000. He was directed Toy the City Council to report fully upon every aspect of the question, and he therefore reported in freat detail, and from which the Council selected what it considered to be essential works of permanent improvement. Tlie £20,000, therefore, which the ratepayers will .be asked to sanction is chiefly for opening up tbe Domain by means of highways, as many parts of this beautiful" reserve are at the present time inaccessible. We want to render this park more accessible to our citizens. .A very considerable portion of the large bush area in the Outer Domain is at the present time, also, in a sadly neglected state and must be attended tsi. if for no other reason than the-fire risk. T * will at the same time greatly improve the area, and I am sure that the exnenditure proposed is. a very reasonable-one .for the permanent, development and jbeautification of the splendid space which —ie citizens possess in the shape of the .'Domain." |. m. ■~- _ . ,