Civil defence 56c a head

Press, 3 May 1985, Page 5

Civil defence 56c a head

Civil defence will cost every man, woman, and child in the Christchurch Combined District 56c each this year, compared with 47c last year. The district civil defence committee yesterday adopted a $230,600 budget for 1985-86. It is up $48,400 on last year’s budget. The seven local authorities in the district would together have to find $160,481, which was 18.72 ner cent un on last vear’s

contribution, said the committee’s secretary, Mr John Gray. The main cause of the increase was a plan to spend $BO,OOO extending the civil defence headquarters in the Manchester Street car-park building, Mr Gray said. Local authorities and the Canterbury United Council would each give $20,000 for the next two years to pay for the alterations. The local authorities’ con-

tribution would have risen only 4 per cent if the alterations were not being done, Mr Gray said. The committee pruned $lOOO from the budget by cutting a general stores allowance from $2OOO to $lOOO. The rest of the $230,600 will come from Government subsidies ($52,700) and a carry forward of about $17,400.