UPPER HUTT BOROUGH

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 239, 6 July 1931, Page 5

UPPER HUTT BOROUGH

. Details of Estimates It has been found possible In Upper Hutt to make a slight reduction in the rates. What the borough, hopes to secure from the rates for 1931-32, and estimates to spend, is shown from the following figures (the East Ward figures are given first);— . The general rate is to produce £2092 8/11, £lO2O/7/0; hospital levy £452//;/-. £271/7/7; street fighting rate £437/10/-. £262/10/-. Special rates' are:—Hutt County (affectIng the West Ward only), £213/14/7 punemployed loans - CWest Ward only), £lOl 2/3; water headworks loan of £5BOO. £251 8/2. £l5O/13/10; Hutt Biver bridge. £22 5/3. £l3/7/3. • ' '■ „ , The following special loans affect, the West Ward only Waterworks supply, £726; office building, £3O; fire brigade, £2l/17/6; widening . Pine Avenue..; £36; Pakuratahl bridges. £2l/6/4; waterworks •ite, £3O/6/-; unemployment. £lO5/2/3.; The total consolidated rate , Is; —East Ward,’£43s4/14/5; West'Ward, £2642/3/-. Added to this Is a special West Ward reticulation rate, £840; and' a special East and part West Ward rate for reticulation, £B7O/9/6; £lB/14/2; separate water rate, ’ £125,'£75. ’ ’ , , ' ’ ' ■' The total amounts' expected- to be collected from rates are." • therefore: —East Ward. £5803/18221; West Ward. £3902 ■2/2. , . '/ > Amounts estimated to be collected froin other sources are:—Bate arrears and penalties, £1243/18/1; Government subsidy on rates, £260: heavy traffic' fees. £600; motor drivers’ licenses, £130;. other licenses and fees, £360/5/-; ■ Maidstone Park. £400: rents. £163; rupblsh removal, £5O; water supply and works, £520; headworks payment. £228/15/-; sundry debtor accounts, £785/13/3,' ' . Estimated expenditure for principal items' is lie follows Mayor’s honorarium, £5O; salaries (less 10 per cent.). £671 17/6; advertising printiai.and stationery. £100; insurances, audit, valuation, .and election expenses, £267 i! ‘ legal expenses, £75; bank interest, and charges, £200; Free Ambulance grant,; £ 100; band grant, £2O: maintenance and construction..£2ss6; 1 Maidstone Park, rent, wages, and material, £1036; motor truck. £140; health Inspector, £150; ranger and traffic Inspector, £104; fire prevention. etc.. £660; City and Suburban Water Board, £259/5/-; City and Suburban Highway.s Board, £403/18/-; purchase of land .for street, £120: returned soldiers’ relief, £75: waterworks. £200; hospital levy, £723/13/7; sanitation. £870; lighting. . £700; No. - 5 ; unemployment scheme, insurance. £.75; .Camp Boad, £2lB 0/4; No. 5 scheme materials. £250; contractors’ deposit. ■ £100; . contingencies, £200; financial adjustments. £213/14/7: headworks; payment, £228/15/-:, Interest and sinking fund. £1637/12/10" reticulation. £1729/3/8; overdraft moiety, £863 o/2. '