CITY WORKS

Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23818, 11 December 1942, Page 4

CITY WORKS

SPENDING BELOW ESTIMATES

HALF-YEARLY RETURNS Expenditure on various works by tW Christchurch City Council for the first six months of the financial year, ended September 30, was below the estimate, the Mayor (Mr E. H. Andrews) SSJQ yesterday. In the period, the work] committee spent £74,'162, the estimated expenditure for the six months being £82.108. Mr Andrews explained w 1 a “good deal” of works for whipn provision had been made in the esti* mates had not been completed. TO® total estimate of expenditure for tit* year by the works committee W?* £147,014. For tar-sealing and the road repDP“ struction programme, the estimate was that £44.000 would be spent in tn» six months. The actual expenditure was £33,000. The cost to the City Council of tne provision of air raid shelters was tnai of the estimate. The City Council paid £4132: the work for the whole year was estimated to cost £7630 and Mr Andrews commented that the co,* was “an even break for the time ee* Under the item of waterworks, £38.182 was voted for the year. « being expected that £21.766 would M spent in the first six months, "de grant was underspent, the expend* ture being £18.568.