QUEEN CARNIVAL BALANCE. SHEET.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 7 October 1922, Page 11

QUEEN CARNIVAL BALANCE. SHEET.

To the Editor. Sir, —I awaited the letter from Mr. C. Brough. of which that of J.W.H.. was a sure precursor, before making any statement on the above matter. Had J.W.H. gone to the chairman of the School ©arnival Committee, mii stead of to the person who first sup- ■ plied him with figures, and then answered his letter, a fully detailed statement of accounts would have been gladly shown him. This statement includes three accounts—viz gala days, October 24-25, 1921, account; gala day, November 23rd, 1921, account, and crowning ceremony day account, from which net balances were .brought forward to the balance-sheet These accounts show' respectively £28 Os 3d, £3Q 5s 3d, ancl 17s expenditure, making a total of £59 2s 6d. If, to this amount, one adds the sum of £20 (shown as received for advertising and taken off the cost of printing voting tickets) and that of £44 2s 6d (amounts paid by the committee on behalf of candidates after conclusion of the carnival, and deducted from the total paid , in by those candidates, in accordance with a minute passed by the committee to the effect that each candidate's committee should bear its own ex- ' penses), we have a sum of £123 5s to add to the total as shown in the published balance-sheet. This gives a total of £1885 2s Bd. \ Then take the following items: £2 os, 6d, for which a cheque was given in exchange;.7s 6d and 65,. amounts refunded by candidate's committees against payments made on their behalf by the executive committee; 3s 6d, amount overpaid treasurer on account of concert; discount allowed by the Star (6s 6d), less cartage paid out of pocket (3s 6d), 3s; and 4s, being the difference betwetif the,amount paid by the Secretary to the treasurer on account of concert, £32 0s 6d. and amount shown in his balance-sheet, £32 4s 6d^ and we arrive at the ..income as shown by Mr Brough's balance-sheet, viz., £1888 7s 2d not £1884 13s 2d 3 as put forward m his letter. How Jia nht.n.ino/1 !..-<.

figures, £26 12s 3d for expenses is harder to ; fathom. According to his balance-sheet the expenses were £343 14s 2d, less discount ,Eltham Pipe Band"£s, Hawera Star £8 Bs—£33o 6s SToro V^a}** 3* pa^ k shows that ±.180y 4s 4d wag paid in, so once again Mr. rough's figures do not tally. From the above one can judge that" I would hardly state. Mr. Brough's figures to be correct. What I did state was that the sums paid to the respective school committees were correct, inasmuch as they represented the, total amount which had been obtained by the;efforts of the committee and that his figures there were correct. Mr.. Brough, how could I check the figures in a book ™ So? 0? carry in y°ur Pocket showing &6£ 4s 6d as the gross proceeds of the concert, againstjhe payments of **m us od. which you mad* to th* ' treasurer? 'Look at your balancesheet again; if shows conceit Opera S° USu' ,f 3? '^s 6d- Amount overpaid Mr. .Bullock .orv .account of. concert 3s bd, and nothing was submitted to me eJ«lwi V* Uld rify lthese figures > except the treasurer's receipts for cash paid in which did not agree with Mr. Brough's .amounts, tas Ishiown Th© conclusion Mr. Brough arrived *at was certainly correct, but the way lie got there was open to. criticism " Ix*t us now pass on to Mr. Broueh's paragraph, that the public are entitled to all the tacts and that the statement should never >aye been presently? ?«l h^m- Mr- •Br <^gt knew on the 16th September that it was pro- - posed to ,ask the Star to publish %he balance-sheet as it appeared on September 26th,, Would it not have b2n a more gracious act on his part to have informed the editor as early as' possible after the 16th of what was going to occur and have thus given him an opportunity,of verifying the statS 3,^ ** was .to be asked to publish. lam fully aware that 10 days was rather short notice for Mr Brough to act in, but it could have been managed. His, reason for not £n? g /°.S€^ ms obviously that he is more fond of seeing print over-tl^ E eofl a H- B™«ha» I ™ over

CHAS. J. CUMMINGS. ' George Street, I Hawera.