Mangonui Rate Collection Higher

Northern Advocate, 21 April 1939, Page 9

Mangonui Rate Collection Higher

Eighty per cent of the Mangonui County Council’s rates levied on Europeans were paid when the financial year ended on March 31. This compared with 67 per cent paid at the same time last year. Commencing with a credit balance of £1430, the council ended its financial year with ,a surplus of £1669. Receipts for the year ended March 31 totalled £35,524, as compared with £48,646 for the previous year, the difference being the amount received from the Employment Board and Mangonui Wh.arf Loan. Expenditure amounted to £35,285, as compared with £47,324. Low collection of rates in the Houhora Riding was due to the fact that two companies failed to pay rates amounting to £561.

Details of Finances.

Receipts for the year were made up as follows (with last year’s figures in brackets). —

General rates. —Ahipara riding, £749 14/5 (£673 18/2); Awanui'riding, £lOl7 1/3 (£844 6/2); Herekino riding, £725 3/4 (£5Bl 19/4); Houhora riding, £754 2/1 (£625 5/2); Kaitaia riding, £1453 5/8 (£1204 3/2); Mangonui * riding, £757 6/6 (£660 14/-); Oruru riding, £IOBB 4/- (£957 19/6); Victoria Valley riding, £1530 6/11 (£1391 7/4); arrears, £2254 3/1 (£3150 17/4).

Special rates, £3BOI 9/4 (£3llO 8/4); arrears, £1449 4/- (£2127 2/11).

Government subsidy on rates, £768 16/3 (£597 7/9); Main Highways subsidies, £5194 5/7 (£4328 9/11); Government grants, £5609 14/11 (£4893 10/11); Unemployment Board, £3236 3/- (£14,955 16/4); Mangonui Wharf £I3OB 15/9 (,£3919); heavy traffic licenses, £1657 10/4 (£1403 18/10); riding receipts, £llO 4/5 (£274 17/2); general licenses, £731 15/3 (£7lB 5/10); rents and miscellaneous, £B9B 10/4 (£1692 1/2); land fund, £194 15/1 (£223 15/3); refunds, £177 0/5 (£291 1/3); timber royalties, £27 2/7 (£3 13/-); Ten per cent penalty on rate, £2O 1/-; contractors’ deposits, £lO (£16); total, £35,524 15/6 (£48,645 18/10).

Expenditure was as follows.—Main highways, £7261 18/3; Government grants, £6813 7/11;' riding roads, £2389; main roads by special order, £1043 15/-; unemployment, £3137 4/10; Mangonui wharf,'£2B99 13/11; land fund, £172 10/1; interest and sinking fund special loans, £4513; hospital contribution, £3615 15/5; town board share H.T.L., £124 8/-; bank interest, £212 14/10; bridges over 20ft. span, £166 4/10; administration, £2345 9/1; insurances and election expenses, £22 7/3; miscellaneous, £367 12/3; total, £35,285 1/9. Credit balance at March 31, 1939, £1669 14/3.