LOWER HUTT BOROUGH

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 241, 8 July 1931, Page 5

LOWER HUTT BOROUGH

Details of Estimates INCREASED VALUATIONS The Lower Hutt Borough Council has approved of the estimates for the financial vear 1931-32, and has struck its consolidated rate of 15.75 pence in the £1 on a valuation of £1,776,000, against a valuation last year of £1,080,000. The amount estimated to be produced is £40,9<>0, against £47,250. The amount required in the general account is £22,834, secured by a general rate of 3 63-740 pence in £l. A separate account of £6419 is secured on a rate of 042-740 of a penny in £l. Interests accounts totalling £20,61)7 arc secured by a rate of 2 590-740 -pence in £l. Compared with last year there is an Increase of £4OOO in tlie general account, a decrease of £413 in the. separate accounts,, and of £BB3 in the interest accounts, a total increase in all accounts of £2701. In the following figures relating to receipts and expenditure, actual amounts received and expended in 1930-31 are given in parentheses. General Account. Receipts in the general account are estimated as follow:— Ten per cent, penalty on rates, £350 (£315); rates written off — (£12); Government subsidy on rates, £405 (£450); publican and wholesale licenses, £l9O (£107); auctioneers' licenses, £l2O (£154); sundry; motor drivers and heavy traffic licenses, £2BOO (£2805); petrol tax, £1250 (£1566); building permits, £4OO (£826); fines, fees, and court costs, £3OO (£349); dog tax, £250 (£255); rents, £727 (£756); channel crossing,’ £lOO (£448); stormwater drains, £lOO (£150); miscellaneous, £lOO (£144); hire of plant, £l5O (£489); new sewer connections, £4OO (£1047); accident compensation, £lOO (£90); swimming baths, £l5O (£144); inspection charges,. £5O (£86); transfer from water account, £1338 (£2345)." ’ ‘ Administration Costs. The estimated expenditure includes administration (salaries and mayor’s honorarium), £4200, less £BOO charged to water account, £3400 (£3148); advertising, £lOO (£43); printing and stationery, £250 (£249); postage, telegrams, etc., £150; rent of offices, £425 (£425); office furniture and appliances, £5O (£41); office, heating and lighting, £65 (£63); office cleaning, £65 (£67); telephones, £lOO (£103); audit fees, £95 (£97); legal expenses, £5OO (£624); valuation rolls, £9O (£B9) ; preparation of district electoral roll and printing, £l5O (£3).; election and poll expenses, £3OO (£1); sundry rents and rates, £175 (£170); grants (Moera Hall £25, Free Kindergarten £20); Plunket Society, £6O, dental.clinic, £3O; Ambulance Committee, £-50; Hutt Municipal Band, £5O; Discharged Prisoners’ Aid Society, £5; Talta Cemetry Board, £100; Hutt Technical School, £10; Workers’ Education Association, £5; Hutt Valley High School, £10; contingency grant £5O, £415 (£725); unauthorised expenditure, £l5O (£103); bank Interest and charges, £750 (£795); travelling'expense's, £5O (£14); superannuation, £550- (£530).

■ Parks and Reserves. ; Recreation Ground.—Maintenance,' wages and material, £-531 (£570); grandstand, £lOO ( —) ; insurance, telephones, interest and sinking fund on caretakers’ cottage, £ Rl<Wford Park.—Wages and material, £528 (£791); interest and sinking fund on caretaker’s cottage, Indies’ rest, room, post office clock upkeep, £7B (£7B). Scenic Reserves. —£800 (£80o). Fire Prevention—Plant., maintenance, wages, and material, £730 (£517); other charges, £3OO (£286).'. .. ' Swimming Baths.—Maintenance .. and wages, £l6l (£176); other charges,- £199 Highways Board contribution, £829 (£1169); miscellaneous, £lOO (£164), transfer to library account, £244 (£Z4o), transfer to unemployment relief account, £5535 ■(—). Engineer’s Department. Office expenses and library, £llO (£245) -, car allowance, £l5O (£150) ; travelling expenses, £2O (£5). Streets. —Maintenance, £5090 (£0128); cleaning, £2lO (£236); footpaths and cycle tracks, £7OO (£1129); tools and plant purchase, nil (£607); plant maintenance, £6OO (£818).' _ , Stables.—Feed, £550 (£«92); maintenance, £350 (£390); bridges maintenance, £ S?wate 9 disposal, £2020 (£2436); scav ; ' cngerlng and clearing rubbish tip, £6bo (£735); sanitation, £l6O (£l<4). Stormwater, clearance, maintenance, etc., £505 (£452). Miscellaneous - Items.

Holiday ■ pay, £lBO (£222); siek pay, £l3O (£146); traffic control, £4lO (£;>21); inspection charges, £l4O (£171); contingencies, £4OO (£777); borough plan preparation, £3OO (£327); special repairs and alterations to septic tank plant, £3OO (£21); Moera drainage, £6O (£75); street name plates, £25 (£200); accident insurance, £250 (£215). >.■ For the public library subscriptions were estimated to •produce £2OO (£217); and £244 (£245) were transferred from the. general account. In tlie payments, salaries amounted to £209 (£240), and books, periodicals, and newspapers, £135 (£134).. Street-lighting costs, £l6OO (£ISS2). Hospital and Charitable Aid Board levy, £4679 (£5142). . ' Hutt Road maintenance, £l4O (£140).

Waterworks receipts - are -..estimated at £3500 (£3451) from rates; £1250 (£2187) from extraordinary supply ; ■ £4OO (£550) from new connections; and £45 (£B6) from other sources.