WAIMAIRI RATES.
COUNCIL DECIDES ON REDUCTION. APPROXIMATELY 25 PER CENT. The estimates for the year 1931-32 for the Waimairi County were submitted at last night's meeting of the Council, and a reduction in the general rat© of approximately 25 per cent, in all the ridings was decided upon. , In order to make this reduction possible the following reductions in expenditure are to be made:—
Regarding salaries and wages, it was resolved that all employees receiving in excess of £lO4 per annum be reduced by 10 per cent., such reductioa to operate from July Ist next. It was decided that the question of the granting of & bonus to any employee be considered at the end of the financial year. The amounts standing to the credit of the various ridings at the beginning of the year were as follows: Styx £152,- Marshland £1390, Avon £639, Belfast £448, Harewood £1552, Papanui £504, Wairarapa £1668, Fendalc ton £2743, Middleton £IOBB. The rate struck for the various ridings and a comparison with that of last year is as follows:
£. £ Telephones reduced to to 90 Legal expenses reduced from .. 150 to 100 Clerical assistance 130 to 100 Sundries .. .. 36 to 25 Travelling expenses 80 to 40 General wages 550 to 500 Maintenance bridges, etc. 150 to 100 Grants— Riccarton Bush 15 to 10 Progress League 77 to 50 Technical College 20 to 10 Pound and ranging 130 to nil (The services o£ the ranger and poundkeeper to bo dispensed with.) Tree planting 200 to 25 Contingencies . . 1000 to 750 North road shoulders 105 to 58 Styx Riding— Motor grading 106 to 50 Hiding roads 493 to 12S Belfast Biding— Biding roads 264 to 23S Harewood Riding— Street lamps (increased £16) to 168 Middleton Riding— Middleton road widening .. 100 to nil
Rate Sat* and amount and amount produced required Biding. last year. this year. Styx . lid—£1410 Id—£1661 Marshland Id—£1455 ll-16d—£294T Avon ; ljd—£2633 lid—£8572 Belfast Id—£1508 id—£2045 tlarewood . gd—£1654 Id—£3572 Papanui . lid—£1881 15a6d—£2622 "Wairarapa . Id—£1883 Sd—£3684 Fendolton id—£6598 |d—£10,747 Middleton lid—£2286 id—£221i
WAIMAIRI RATES.
Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20272, 25 June 1931, Page 9
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