GREY BOROUGH ESTIMATES

Grey River Argus, 20 July 1945, Page 4

GREY BOROUGH ESTIMATES

SUM OF £75,360 INVOLVED, Estimates of receipts and expenditurel for the year ending March 31, next were adopted bv the Grey Borough Council at its monthly meeting last evening. A total sum of £75,360 19s 8d is involved. Details are:— Receipts: Credit at National Bank of N.Z. Ltd., District fund account, £367 5s lOd; cash in hand, March 31, 1945, district fund account, £1,568 os 3d; General rate over whole area (£14,100), estimated to produce £13,350; 10 per cent, penalty on overdue rates over whole area £150; licensing fees, including heavy traffic fees, £2,300; reserves rents, including streets, £230; hospital rate, ovdr whole area, £10,623 10s 2d; cemetery fees, including sale of plots, £450; library subscriptions, fines, etc., £150; Town Hall rents, £450; abattoir tees, £2,000; sale of gas, £11,600; sale of gas stoves, appliances, etc., £l,9ud; 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 Hignways 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 15s), estimated to produce £800; other revenue, £350; outstanding revenue, £8,500; women’s rest room, £80; total, £75,360 19s Bd. Expenditure: District f unci’ cheques unpresented, £3,181 7s 4d; Mayor’s honorarium, £150; Town Clerk and officers’ salaries, £2,663 13s; Miscellaneous, including administration, £1,500; Contingencies, £150; Dram age, £1,700; Main Highways, £suo; Cobden bridge, charge payable to Grey County Council, £74 Is Sd; Streets maintenance, £6,678 18s t>d; Streets, improvements, £1,806; Streets lighting, £1,150; removal of nightsoil, £1,100; Removal of house refuse £670; Fire prevention, levy payable to Greymouth Fire Board, £617 10s; Dserves, recreation and public instruction, £l,Oll 17s; Municipal swimming bath, £320; Hospital levy, over wnoie area, £10,623 10s 2d; Cemetery, maintenance, £531 17s; Cemetery, extension from revenue, £300; Library and reading room, £1,063 14s; Town' Hail, including Reserve Fund, £931 175.; Town Hall, caretaker’s quarters,' £350; Gas Department, wages and upkeep, £13,500; Gas Department, stoves, fittings, etc., £1,500; Gas Department, depreciation fund, £589 0s lOd; Abattoir, including depreciation fund, £2,627 8s; Water Account, wages and upkeep, £1,250; Water, extensions, £250; Water, electric power for pumps, £1,9(10; Health Inspector, £152; Inspector of Nuisances,. £2OO 18s 6d; Election expenses, £B6 9s 8d; Centennial Memorial Rest Room contract, £100; Women’s Rest Room, £3Ol 17s; Social amenities (unauthorised expenditure), £100; Relief of 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 oe established (nucleus of) - £500; Amount reserved for the re-erection of the Post Office Clock, £500; Public conveniences, £100; Aerodrome, £5O; total £75,360 19s Bd. Increased wages under the recent basic wages ’ order, amounting i.o £2,100, have been allocated to various accounts. About £6OO of this sum will be passed on to the ratepayers. A special meeting of the Council to receive the Treasurer’s report, and to give notice of intention to strike ana levy rates for 1945-46 will be heid next Monday.