PETONE AND HUTT NEWS.

Evening Post, Volume LXVII, Issue 132, 4 June 1904, Page 6

PETONE AND HUTT NEWS.

The Potono Borough Council will at its next meeting consider the estimated rcseipts and 'expenditure for 190-1-5. The estimated revenue in the District Fund account is £2798, the chief items of which are: — Rates, £1960 (including £300 arreaxs); subsidy on rates, £200 ; licenses, £183 ; receipt* Itecieation Ground, rent, etc., £150; dog tax, £92; building permits, £80. The estimated expenditure is £3208, which, plus the present debit balance (£1380), will make the debit balanco at the end of the year £1790. The chicf t items of expenditure arc set down as: Maintenance and repairs, ■ £1445 ; salaries , £486 ; Hospital Board and Charitable Aid Board, £332 ; Recraatioa Ground, £398; Fire Brigade, £169; bank interest and charges, £115. In the Gasworks Account tho estimated receipts are £3988, and expenditure (including interest), £4311. The income from lighting, heating, and power, is set down a* £3095, from residents £300, from Petone Borough Lighting rale £271, and from Hutt lamps £163. Included in t!*e expenditure is £219, present debit' balance. On tho Sanitary Account the estimated receipts are £737 ; expenditure, £935. Ou the Waterworks Loan Account, £656 will have to be raided to meet interest, and £462 for maintenance, etc. This item is an extra to rates pieviously Btniok. Tlio Petone Rowing Club's Bozaar has done excellent business since its opening. Fifty pounds was taken on the first night, £60 the second, und there was another successful night last evening. Tho bazaur closes fo»night. The local agents have been advised that the Shaw-&nill steamer Aotea, .which .loft Wellington for London on 4th Mny, continued her voyage from Bio do Junero on Thursday morning. There appears to be * a dearth of labonters in this district if we (Palmerston Times) may make that deduction from the fact that only one application w«« received by the Waihemo County Council for the position of surfaceman to Macrae's Biding. The vacancy had been extensively advertised, and the wages offered wore 6s M a day, with permanent employment