FOXTON HARBOUR

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 176, 25 June 1935, Page 2

FOXTON HARBOUR

MEETING OF BOARD. At the Foxton Harbour Board meeting yesterday, Mr J. Linklater, M.P., presiding, it was decided that the local committee report on the condition of the board’s launch. The same committee was given authority to proceed with the repairing of certain beacons and the erection of new ones. The Public Trustee forwarded 52 debentures for execution in connection with the board’s loan conversion scheme. It was reported that the total cost of the conversion was £l7 3s 3d. The financial statement for the period from October 1, 1934, to May 31, 1935, showed the following figures : Receipts:—Pilotage £94 4s, lighting £33, inward wharfage £965 11s lid, outward wharfage £l7 6s 2d, ships’ dues £2O ss, rents £397 14s 4d, road contributions £45 18s 4d, Seabury Avenue levy £9 4s lOd, No. 5 scheme £577 19s 4d, miscellaneous £624 7s 7d; debit balance at bank on May 31, £l6O 7s 9d. Expenditure :—Overdraft £569 Is lOd, salaries £296 13s 7d, maintenance and repairs £56 11s Bd, office and general expenses £56 12s 3d, handling. etc., £463 3s 4d, insurances £65 13. s Id, tenants’ contributions and insurance refund £487 7s, miscellaneous £2B 72s 2d_. No. 5 scheme £561 14s 4d, travelling expenses £2O 10s, interest £340.