GREY BOROUGH ESTIMATES

Greymouth Evening Star, 20 July 1945, Page 6

GREY BOROUGH ESTIMATES

£75,360 -IN -EXPENDITURE The Greymouth Borough Council, last evening, approved the estimates lor the current financial year. Provision is made for the receipt and payment of £75,360/19/8, including £2,100 in expenditure covering increases in the wages of employees under the recent basic wage order, of which sum about £6OO will be passed on to the ratepayers in rates. It was decided that a special meeting be held' on Monday next to receive the Treasurer’s report and to give notice- to strike and levy the rates for 1945-46. Details Of the estimates are as follow:— '

Receipts: Credit at National Bank of N.Z. Ltd., District fund account, £367/5/10; cash in hand, March 31, 1945, district fund account, £1,568 3/8; general rate over whole area (£14,000), estimated to produce £13,350; 10 p.c. penalty on overdue rates over the whole area, £150; licensing fees, including heavy traffic fees,. £2,300; ‘reserves rents, including streets, £230; hospital rate, over whole area, £10,623/10/2; cemetery fees, including sale of plots, £450; library subscriptions, fines, etc., £150; Town Hall rents, £450; abattoir fees, £2,000; sale of gas, £11,600; sale of gas stoves, appliances, etc., £1,900; sale of gas residuals, £2,650; gas sundries, rent of house, £52; water rate over whole area (£3,114), estimated to produce £3,000; extraordinary water supply: W.C. licenses over whole area, £3,200; proportion of petrol tax, from Main Highways Board, £1,200; special rate over whole area (£10,910), estimated to produce £10,150; special rate —over special area of Cobden (£273), estimated to produce £240; pan closet rate over whole area £995/15/-), estimated to produce £800; other revenue, £350; outstanding revenue, £8,500; women’s rest room, £80; total, £75,360/19/8. Expenditure: District fund cheques unpresented, £3,181/7/4; Mayor’s honorarium, £150; Town Clerk and officers’ salaries, £2,663/13/-; miscellaneous, including administration, £1,500; contingencies, £150; drainage, £1,700; Main Highways, £500; Cobden bridge, charge payable to Grey County Council, £74/1/8; streets maintenance, £6,678/18/6; streets, improvements, £1,806; streets fighting, £1,150; removal of nightsoil, £1,100; removal of house refuse £670: fire prevention, levy payable to Greymouth Fire Board, £617/10/-; reserves, recreation and public instruction, £l*oll/17/-; Municipal swimming bath, £320; Hospital levy, over whole area , £10,623/10/2: Cemetery, maintenance, £531/17/-; Cemetery, extension from revenue. £300; Library and reading room, £ 1.063/14/-; Town Hall, including jeserve fund, £931/17/-; Town Flail, caretaker’s quarters, £350; Gas Department, wages and upkeep, £13,500: Gas Department, stoves, fittings, etc, £1.500; Gas Department, depreciation fund, £589/0/10; Abattoir including depreciation fund, £2,62 1 8/-- water account, wages and upkeep. £1,250; water extensions. •'•'2so: water, electric power for pumps, £1,900; Health Inspector, £152; Inspector of Nuisances £2OO 18/6; election expenses, £B6/9/8; Centennial Memorial Rest Room. Rest Room, £3Ol/17/-; . 999M,a,U contract. £100; Women’s Rest Room, £307/17/-; social amenities (unauthorised expenditure), £100; relief ol unemployment out of. revenue, £7O; interest and sinking fund, including interest on overdraft, £13,311; reserve for works department machinery, £1,000; insurance fund to be established (nucleus or) £a00; amount reserved for the re-erection of the Post Office clock, £500; public conveniences, £100; aerodrome, -£ao; total, £75,360/19/8.