CITY COUNCIL ESTIMATES

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27073, 23 June 1953, Page 10

CITY COUNCIL ESTIMATES

PRINCIPAL VOTES APPROVED

DETAILS OF PROPOSED EXPENDITURE

The principal votes approved m the city council’s estimates last evening, with last year’s expenditure in parenthesis. were:— By-Laws. Finance and Departmental. —Staff salaries, £46,024 (£44,536); clerical assistance, £3OOO (£2296); office lighting, £lOll (£725); office cleaning, £2805 (£2712); telephones, £1207 (£905); furniture and fittings, £250 (£82); requisites. £1045 (£754); graphotype machine for rate office, £775; adding machine. £360; printing and stationery, £3OlO (£2691); revising valuation roll by Government Valuation Department, £3010; printing, etc., district- electors’ list. £5105 £2343); maintenance of buildings, £1039 (£725); floor covering of council chambers, £532: elections and polls expenses. £8250; Kerr’s Reach land compensation, including interest at 3 per cent., £8720; clocks ior office block, £223; purchase of land for aerodrome extension, £18,000; air race, £800; Coronation expenses, £2OOO (10s); Royal visit, £5OOO (£469); office alterations for wwn planning section. £400; Taylor’s Mistake land, £l6O.

Grants. Canterbury Progres« League. £lOO (£225): Plunket Society, £55 (£155); Maori Association. £150; Sumner Lifeboat Institute. £65 (£57); S.P.C.A., £4OO (£500): reserves inspectiorx £25 (£1); Y.M.C.A.. additional for entertainment of troops. £5O. Other grants last year are unchanged. Municipal Baths.— Wages. £4164 (£3861); repairs and supplies, £7OO (£549); heating and filtration. £l5OO (£1383). The expenditure is estimated at £8469 (£11,181).-

Entertainments. — Maintenance of rotundas. £lOB (£32): Civic Theatre, alterations to stairs, back stage and protection of piano, £3OO (£68); new scenery, £300; reconditioning city organ, £2OO (£550); dressing room extension. £220; waterproofing of basement floor, £5O; new piano. £950 (£275); deficit on theatre. £950. Public Baths.— Deficiency on account £4247 (£6944); Sydenham baths, £ls<i (£35): Woolston baths. £l5O (£99); St. Albans baths. £3OO (£344); Opawa baths. £3OO (£87); Papanui Memorial Hall heating service extension, £4OO (£435).

Robert McDougall Art Gallery.— Salaries, etc., £1465 (£1142); heating, £9O (£60); cleaning materials, £lOO (£49); general maintenance,. £202 (£65); renovating of pictures, £250 (£250); purchase of pictures, £2OO (£200).

Housing and Town Planning.— Street widening: general, £lOO6 (£962); Victoria street, £5OO (£500); Swann’s road, £200; Mcßratney’s road, £500; Rutland street extension, £250; Merivale lane, £125; equipment, etc., £4Ol (£118). Housing.— Council houses, £ 1238 (£3560); workers’ dwellings, £920 (£727); pensioners’ cottages, £4llB (£1575); land for housing, £2OOO (£1627). The cash deficiency on pensioners’ cottages is estimated at £1720 (£2164). Works.— Salaries, £23,036 (£21,578); new sealing, £5OO (£1983); preparation for sealing, £100; new road construction and reconstruction Paisley and Van Asch streets, £350; Philpotts road, £lOOO (£999); Linwood avenue (Tillford-Hargood streets), £500; weir in river Avon at Antigua street, £700; Charles worth street, £250 (£ls4>; Riverlaw terrace (Burnbrae street to Wilson's road), £3OO (£52); Riverlaw terrace (north Beckford road), £6OO (£502); Huntsbury avenue (Eastern terrace boundary), £800; Rockinghorse road, £2OO (£388); Avonside drive extension, £4OO (£450); Bay View road (top end), £800;. Albert terrace, £3ao; Arnold street, £1500; Long street, £300; Bower avenue, £300; regrade of Marine parade (Bower avenue to Lonsdale street),, £1350; new road off Britannia street, £1400; sea protection, Sumner and New Brighton, £3OOO (£3972); boat harbour for lifeboat, £100; part construction Locksley avenue (Kerr’s Reach), £2200. Path Construction.— Asphalt paths (schedule to be approved), £4730 (£1766); Mount Pleasant road, £80; street widening, Avonside drive (Kerr’s to Wainoni road), £l5OO (£487); general widening and rounding corners, £1504 (£2440). Road and path maintenance: general maintenance, £30,006 (£30,126); resealing of roads, £31,000 (£36,664); general maintenance of paths, £7OOO (£6833); resealing of paths, £BOOO (£6356); storm and flood damage, £lOOO. Street Cleaning.—Path and street sweeping, £5OOO (£5023); channel sweeping and gully emptying, £42,500 (£42,042); chipping and mowing, £lB,OOO (£20,631); leaf removal, £l2OO (£1490). Drainage.—Kerb and channel construction, £4120 (£4311); channel repairs, £2500 (£2504). Bridges and Jetties.—Beckford street footbridge, £5OO (£5); general repairs and painting, £lOOO (£1636). Dust and ' Refuse. —Collection, £45,501 (£44,933); disposal, £BOl2 (£7820); purchase of land, £4750 (£371). Christchurch International Airport general repairs and maintenance, £lOOO (£1701). Yards Improvements.— Additions at central yard, £lOOO (£3725); yard amenities, £5OO (£359); room for social club, £950 (£1764). Tram routes, £5OOO (£146); Blenheim road extension, £2300 (£2300). Reserves.—Repairs to plant and machinery, £2038 (£1127); plant renewal fund, £2llO (£1000); conveniences and dressing sheds at Taylor’s Mistake, £600; storm damage, £900; garage and completion of walls at Sign of the Takahe, £500; English Park turnstiles and ticket boxes, £550; kerbing at Sumner reserve, £150; fencing at Kennedy's Bush, £200; painting of Coronation Hall, Spreydon Domain, £200; tool shed and repairs to residence, Beckenham Park, £200: reconstruction of kiosk, Botanic Gardens, £2400.

Traffic.— Salaries, £26,327 (£25,718); overtime, £3175 (£3026); maintenance of cars, £928 (£797), of motor-cycles, £l2Bl (£918); uniforms for inspectors, £1324 (£799); signs, £lO5l (£649), marking streets, £2043 (£1805); maintenance of testing station—salaries, £B5OO (£7062); lighting, etc, £1263 (£716); installation of new equipment, £500; radio communication, £2447; replacement of car, £350.