GREY BOROUGH ESTIMATES

Greymouth Evening Star, 21 July 1944, Page 7

GREY BOROUGH ESTIMATES

£71,000 TO BE SPENT. The Greymouth Borough Council’s estimates for the year ending March 31, 1945, were approved by the Council last evening. » The estimated expenditure is £71,216 11/5. The details are as follow: —

Payments: Bank cheques unpresented. £1,974 0/6; Mayor’s honorarium £150; Town Clerk and officers salaries £2,200; Miscellaneous, including administration £1.500; Contingencies, £150; Drainage; £1,279; Main Highways £1000; Cobden bridge charges, payable to Grey County Council £74 1/8; Streets maintenance £5,000; Improvements, £1,000; Lighting, £1,150; Removal of nightsoil, £1000; Removal of house refuse, £620; Fire prevention (levy payable to Fire Board), £617 10/-; Reserves, recreation and public instruction £800; Municipal Swimming Bath £320; Hospital levy, over whole area £10,74b 6/-; Cemetery maintenance, £500; Cemetery extensions, £300; Library and reading room £1,000; Town Hall (including Reserves Fund) £1100; Town Hall, caretaker’s quarters £350; Gas Department, wages and upkeep, £12,000; Gas Department, stoves, fittings etc., £1.800; Gas Department, motor truck, £750; Gas Dept, depreciation fund £600: Abattoir, including depreciation fund, £2,500; Water, wages and upkeep, £1,500; Water extensions £500; Water electric power for pumps £1,800; Health Inspector £152; Inspector of Nuisances £185; Election expenses £317; Centennial Memorial Rest Room contract £100; Women’s Rest Room, £270; Social amenities (unauthorised expenditure), £100: Interest and Sinking Fund,’ including interest on overdraft, Pl 3 118; Relief of unemployment out of revenue. £100; Aerodrome £10; Reserve for Works Department machinery £1.500: Unallocated £1,083 13/3. Total £71,216 11/5. Receipts: Credit at National Bank of N.Z. Ltd., District Fund Account, £2.259 1/2; Cash in hand, March 31, 1944 District Fund Account, £1,025 8/6-’ General rate over- whole area (£12,600) estimated to produce £12,000, 10 per cent, penalty on overdue rates (over whole area), £130; Licensing fees, including heavy traffic fees £2,200; Reserves rents, including streets £230; Hospital rate (over whole area) £10,746 6/-. Cemetery fees, including sale of plots, £450, Library subscriptions, fine etc., tlbu; Town Hall rents £450; Abattoir fees, £2000: Sale of Gas, £10,700; Sale of Gas stoves, appliances, fittings etc., £1,800; sale of residuals £2,700; Gas sundries, rent of house, etc., -52, Water rate over whole area (£3.0/0 13/4), estimated to produce £3.000; Extraordinary supply, and W.C. licenses over whole area, £3,100, Proportion of petrol tax from Mam Highways Board £1,100; Refund from Cobden Sewerage Loan Account to District Fund Account £1,793 15/9; Special rate over whole area (£11,476) estimated to produce £10,900: Special rate, new loans (Cobden and Cemetery £227) estimated to produce £l9o_, Pan closet rate over whole area (£9as 15/-) estimated to produce £800; Other revenue £350: Outstanding revenue £3,000; Women’s rest room (including charring charged against which the parties should try to abate 11/5.