GREY COUNTY FINANCES

Grey River Argus, 5 June 1943, Page 3

GREY COUNTY FINANCES

A financial statement on Thursday presented to the Grey County' Council at its annual meeting, covering the year ended March 31, last, showed receipts for the year as £40,103 Is 6d, compared with the estimated figure of £43,320, and the 1943 receipts of £49,853 3s 7d. Details are as follows, the receipts in each case being followed first by the estimated figures, in parenthesis, and secondly, by the receipts for 1942: — Rates collected £11,004 4s 9d (£10,500) £11,483 7s 3d; Vehicle licenses, £3,607 19s lOd (£3,200) £3,873 6s lid; Sundry licenses, £450 15s (£400) £452 6s 9d; Royalties and rents £317 7s (£280) £133 7s; Sales! Material and hire, £502 17s 7d (£400) £275 9s lid; Compensation Refunds £l3l 9s 7d (£200) £382 7s- lid; State Forests, £2,284 7s 4d (£1,500) £2,595 15s 6d “Halves” and “Thirds” £2BB 9s 6d (£400) £415 0s lid; Goldfields £5,05?. 15s 5d (£5,000) £6,054 4s lid; Employment Scheme Refunds, £4,474 0s lOd (£4,996) £11,329 8s 7d; Main Highways Refunds, £5,564 12s 8d (£7,337) £6,275 4 S 3d; . Government Grants, £907 12s (£1,811) £776 16s 2d; Sundry Receipts, £671 3s 4d (£826) £922 8s lOd; Hire Accounts (Machinery and P.W. General), £4,826 16s 8d (£4,500) £4,883 18s 3d; Emergency Precautions Services £l9 10s (£200) Nil. Expenditure for the year totalled £39,317 14s Sd, compared with the estimated .figure of £46,314, and the 1942 receipts of £46,232 2s 9d. Details are as follows, the receipts in each case being followed by the estimated figures, in parenthesis, and the receipts for 1942:—• Main Highways, £7,382 15s lid (£10,867) £9,468 3s lOd; Main Roads, £6,8741 9s Sd (£7,906) £7,313 Ils 3d; Government Grants, £2.752 5s 5d (£3,315) £1,258 16s lOd; Works, General,. £1,809 18 s 5d (£1,300) £1,537 4s Id; Machinery Petrol, £1,742 14s 5d (£1,600) £1,803 18s 4d; Machinery, M’tce. & new plant, £2,170 4s lid .£1,100) £1,147 14s Id; Employment Scheme £4,827 12s 7d (£5,356) £ll,lOl 13s 7d; Hospital Levy, £5,160 2s lid (£5,161) £4,366 18s lOcl; Interest and Sinking Fund, £793 19s 7d (£794) £B2B 5s Hd; Heavy Traffic Apportionments, £1,482 9s 4d (£1,360) £1,615 9s lOd; Salaries, £1,537 8s lid (£1,544) £1,716 6s Id; General Expenditure, £2,753 7 S Id (£3,011) £4,034 7s lOd: Emergency Precautions Services, £3O ss’6d (£3,000) £39 12s 2d. The Chairman (Cr J. Mulcare) re-

marked that the year had been reasonably satisfactory. There had been .a great shortage of labour and some of the work the Engineer would have liked to put in hand he had not been able to do so. The balance in the present statement, together with that carried over from the previous year, largely represented work that had been deferred because of the shortage of labour, and which it would be necessary to have done.

The statement was received and adopted.