UPPER HUTT BOROUGH FINANCES

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 72, 17 December 1938, Page 15

UPPER HUTT BOROUGH FINANCES

Position For Eight Months

An. increase in receipts of £4790 and in expenditure of £5445 for the eight months ended November of the 1938-39 financial year, compared with the same period of 1937-38, was shown in a financial statement presented to the Upper Hut Borough Council ou Thursday night by the town clerk. Air. B. M. As’iln>shurst. The grand totals, with those for 193738 in parentheses, were: —Receipts, £l->.-782 (£10,992). Expenditure, £15,461 (£10,016). Some of the principal items were: —Receipts: East ward rates, £5248 (£4464) ; west ward rates, £3136 (£2785); miscellaneous receipts, including unemployment refunds, £5682 (£2021). Expenditure: Interest and sinking funds, £2021 (£1319) ; hospital rate_and financial adjustments, £1658 (£1553) ; street maintenance, £464 (£886); sanitation. £1053 (£895) ; street construction, £ll9O (£262) ; scheme 13 works, £4731 (£1513) ; sundries, £1479 (£1008).

Air. AVilmshurst said that receipts were well up in every case, except those from water supplies. Expenditure was well within the estimates. There was an increase in construction works carried out under scheme 13 for which the council had received refunds from the Employment Promotion Fund. It was expected that at the end of the financial year, March, 1939, the bank overdraft would again be reduced. Post Office Clock. “Half a loaf is better than no bread.” said the mayor Air. P. Robertson, when the Postmaster-General, Mr. Jones, advised that while his department could not meet the request for a bracket clock on the Upper Hutt post office building a clock would be placed in one of the outside windows. Donation to Fire Brigade. “I am forwarding a guinea donation toward the brigade funds as a token of appreciation, but at the same time I cannot help feeling that it is up to the person who lit the fire to forward an anonymous donation,” wrote Mr. R. D. Christie, jun., referring to the Upper Hutt Fire Brigade’s work in suppressing a serious gorse fire on his property at Alaoribank. The sum of £3O was granted the fire brigade for six men to attend the New Zealand championships in AVanganui in March, 1939. Motor Camp Prospects. There were fair prospects for the newlyopened Alaidstone Park camping ground, said the reserves superintendent. Mr. H. W. Dalton. Six parties had already selected the camp for the holidays. The dog ranger, Mr. AV. Robinson, reported on tjie large number of dogs at. large in the borough. They were annoying horsemen, motorists and cyclists and worrying sheep and fowls, he said.