GREY COUNTY COUNCIL

Greymouth Evening Star, 29 August 1934, Page 5

GREY COUNTY COUNCIL

current Year rates. At a meeting of the Grey County Council on Monday evening, the estimates for the year ending March 31, 1935, were received, and it. was decided that a rate of 2*d in the £ he struck, the confirming meeting to be held on September 13. The Grey Hospital Board’s statement was received, showing the County’s levy at £3,478, and it was decided to join the Board in protesting against the subsidy reduction. It was further, decided to protest against several provisions of the Mining Amendment Bill, to come before the House shortly. The Treasurer, Mr M. Keating, submitted the following statement of estimated receipts and expenditure I for the year ending March 31, 1935 — Receipts: Rates £7270, vehicle licenses £2500, sundry £260 royalties rents £256, sales £375, refunds comp. £lOO, timber royalties State £l5OO, halves and thiirds goldfield £4250, No. 5 Scheme and gold scheme £20,000, sundry receipts £284, Main Highways Board £8953, Government grants £3662, hire plant £5678; total, £56,388. Expenditure: By Main Highways £12,200; main highways tar sealing £4OO, main roads £4700; machinery maintenance £l5OO, machinery petrol £lBOO, Public Works Gen. £l9BO, • Government grants £4480, unem- ' ployed (No. 5 Scheme and gold scheme) £20,500, motor vehicles ! £1,200, interest £1250, hospital levy £3478, general £2900; total, £56,388. The details of the expenditure on

roads, etc., for the year are as follow:—Arnold Valley £5OO, GreyKumara £l6O, Grey Valley £650, Grey Valley-Teremakau, £9.00, Grey Valley-Maruia £2BO, GreenstoneInchbonnie £320, Greenstone-Hohonu £5O, Kamaka-Bell Hill £3OO, Ngahere-Roa £350, Paroa-Dungan-ville £270, Payne’s Gully £lO, Poerua Settlement £lOO, Bell Hill-Haupiri £350, Big River £lO, BrunnerBlackball £lO, Camerons £7O, Craig £5, Carter £5, Camptown £lO, Duggan £3O, Granville £lO, Cape Terrace £5, Kaiata £lO, Kaimata £5, Lee’s Ferry £5, Matai £lO, Maori Gully £lO, Orwell Creek £lO, Red Jacks £lO, Try Again £l2, Point Elizabeth £25, Ruru-Te Kinga £lOO, Kotuku £lO, Inchbonnie £lO, Waterson £5, machinery repairs £l5OO, petrol £lBOO, public works general £1980; total, £9897. Main Highways: Grey-Westport Coast Road, receipts £2250 (expenditure £3000); Lawson’s Creek £684 (£912); deviation, Rapahoe £250 (£312); Coal Creek bridge £237

(£316); Raleigh Creek £l5O (£200); Ahaura-Haupiri £B5O (£1133); main highway Big Grey-Teremakau £4OOO (£4580); Racecourse Creek £l5O

(£200); Kaiata road £79 (£105); culverts, Omoto £l4O (£185); culverts, 165 m. peg £7B (£104); Callaghan’s Creek bridge £43 (£57); Red Jacks Creek bridge £42 (£56); plant, tools, etc, — (£1040); totals, receipts £8,953 (expenditure £12,200).

Government grants: Big River bridge £2452 (expenditure £2852); Brown Rivei- protection £ll6 (£116); Harry’s Creek bridge £167 (£167); Runi Creek bridge £95 (£95); Hodgkinson Road £266 (£400); Craig Creek bridge £133 (£200); Slatey Creek bridge £166 (£250); Seven Mile Creek protection £267 (£400); totals, receipts £3,662 (expenditure £4,480).