REVENUE FOR COUNCIL

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29239, 24 June 1960, Page 14

REVENUE FOR COUNCIL

Transfer From M.E.D.

The transfer of £45,000 from the funds of the Municipal Electricity Department to the relief of the general rate provides the greatest amount of estimated revenue for the City Council in the 1960-61 financial year outside the rates and National Roads Board subsidy. Of the amount £lO,OOO is transferred from the showroom trading account and the balance from the electrical general account. A wide variety of payments contributes to the council's funds, the smallest items being £1 for beekeeping permits and a similar amount from funeral directors. With 12s, beekepers contributed the smallest amount last year. The registration of dogs is expected to produce £4300 for the council, compared with £4521 last year. The council recently increased the fee for garages on the streets, and this source of revenue is now expected to produce £350, compared with £3B 10s last year. Two sources of revenue to join sandwichmen's licences and horse carriers' licences as historical items are the fees for a common lodging house and for scaffolding. Neither produced the estimated £1 last year, and have disappeared from this year's estimates.

Sales of firewood and timber are expected to net the council £23,191 Motor drivers’ licences are likely to contribute £13.750. and warrants of fitness £19.500

Building permit fees, £20.939 last year, are estimated to produce £19,500.

As collecting authority for the rates of several other local bodies, the council receives a fee, which this year is estimated to amount to £12,500.

Fees, fines and penalties produced £9038 last year, against an estimated £B5OO, and £9OOO is estimated for this year.