YEAR'S ESTIMATES

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 104, 4 May 1937, Page 5

YEAR'S ESTIMATES

THE MAIN ITEMS

RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURE

ALLOCATIONS MADE

. The following are the main items of the detailed statement of probable receipts and expenditure placed before the City Council by the estimates committee last night:—

PRINTING TRADE CRAFTSMEN

The first general meeting of the Wellington Club of Printing House Craftsmen was held last night, Mr. H. W. Lattey presiding over a large and representative gathering. Club members are those actively employed in the printing and closely-allied trades, and the club has for its object the development of a co-operative spirit of friendship and mutual assistance to members, and the improvement of the status of the craft by the interchange of knowledge.

After a dinner, the chairman pointed out the advantages which membership held, and made an appeal for co-opera-tion to improve the status of the craft.

Considerable discussion followed over the membership clauses of the constitution, which was adopted with qualifying amendments.

The election of officers resulted as follows:—President, Mr. H. Lines; vicepresident, Mr. G. Savage; secretarytreasurer. Mr. T. A. Parfitt; committee, Messrs. Stevens, Clark, Ferneaugh, K. Patching, and A. White.

1 RECEIPTS. 1 Esti- Receipts ■ Estimated, to mated. 1930-37. 31/3/37. 1937,-38. £ £ £ Credit balance .. 9,599 12,218 8.H00 . Aerodrome 1,200 097 050 Aerodrome, rent hi advance — '— 1,000 ; Baths & beaches 1,21)0 932 2,200 ■ liuildini; fees 2,500 2,374 2,500 Cemetery and crematorium . D.19G 5,553 5,500 ' Conveniences nnd rest rooms .... 1,200 1,007 1,500 ' Electricity dent. contribution . 15.000 15.000 — ' Encroachment fees S00 1.0S0 S00 Jb'lre Board (purchase of plant and sites) ... 2,307 2,306 2,300 Heavy traffic fees 16,000 IS.195 17,200 Libraries 5,550 6,405 6,200 . Licences 13,000 12,806 12,300 Loan account for services ..... 2,500 2.4G4 2.500 Miscellaneous .. 6.400 1,030 1,500 Petrol tax 18,000 25.573 23 000 Kates 530,092 539,600 5S6 842 Hales subsidy .. 365 450 450 Ments 01,800 G2.066 58,000 Royalties 1,200 1,609 1.300 Reserves .-. 5,000 6,090 6,000 Reserves, golf .. 1,900 1,903 1,900 Suburban halls . 400 373 350 Town Hall 2,400 2,S78 2,600 Vehicle inspection fees _ _ j 500 Water by meter . 18,000 21,772 19'oOO Zo° 1,200 1,443 1,400 £722,809 £747,354 £765,S92 EXPENDITURE. In detail, the estimated expenditure for the current year, together with comparative figures for last year is as follows:— PayEstl- ments Estimated, to mates Works Committee- "^ 31/3/ £ 37- m'g»' S^ ks & ii;™- 34-829 «.«» «*oo BtSJ't" worir^inl *S'"5 24 '583 2T-m eluding railway Sca^n/^itreVt 7°'9°6 CS '90° rC '180 Re^c nof,eetion-& 18 '5°° 17 '130 «'™ 1® «,%' trnnsl)0rt • — — 1,310 180,200 182,839 194,4S0 lnf(I<Un}Vn fl3 i7 ~3S revlsod ""mates the tolal of £201,480 has been reduced to £194 480 but the amount of reduction of each item' is not yet known.) Airport Committee— Reserves Committee- W68 1 '83° Reserves, baths, heaches, and goif llllks 31,076 32.S9S 36,095 Mo 4,175 4,498 4,890 35,251 37.39G 40,985 Libraries Committee— 12,470 13,290 14,500 Bylaws Committee— ~ ' Traffic 9,G9S 11,265 17,890 Health Committee— Cemeteries & crema- •, 0, r, lum Tr 7,019 6,!)84 7,874 Public Health 1,053 2,052 2^020 £8,072 - 9,030 9,894 Total expenditure ' controllable by committee '253,491 255,194 279,599 NON-CONTROLLABLE PAYMENTS. The non-controllable payments proposed total £486,293, ; as against £469,404 on March 31 of this year. The principal increases are in the following items:— Revised Payments, Estimates, 31/3/37. 26/4/37. £ £ Art Gallery contribution 500 1,000 Coronation celebrations .. — 250 Cost of raising and repaying loans 628 2,100 Fire Board levy 16,000 17,000 Fire Brigade station tower and clock — 1,100 Hospital and Charitable Aid Board levy ..... .68,092 70,743 Housing survey — 2,000 Hutt and Wnlwetu bridges contribution ...... — 200 Interest on overdraft .... — 100 King George Memorial Fund : : — 1,000 Motor-vehiclo testing station — 500 Structural alterations and repairs to properties — 1,821 TOTAL EXPENDITURE. The total proposed expenditure, as revised,* is £765,892. A summary of the proposed expenditure for 1937-38, showing a comparison with last year's grant, is as follows:— Increase of revised over est. Granted Revised last year's last year, estimate, provision. £ « £ £ Committees .. 253,401 287,599 34,108 Other expenditure 471/198 4S8.293 16,695 £725,089 £775,892 £50,803 RATES. Approx. £ Increase. Last year's levy 530,092 Increase hospital levy .. 8,651 Increase in interest 5,278 2% p.c. £544,021 Additional levy to meet expenditure as per revised ostimate 42,821 8% P.c. Levy for year 1937-38 .. £586,842 10% p.c.