AN UNPROFITABLE ZOO.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18762, 16 July 1924, Page 10

AN UNPROFITABLE ZOO.

WELLINGTON'S WEEKLY BILL UNFAVOURABLE COMPARISON. |'BX TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.] WELLINGTON. Tuesday. "It was announced in the Auckland newspapers recently that the new Municipal Zoo there was already a paying conoern. The figures for the year submitted to the Wellington City Council on Friday evening do not indicate that the Wellington Zoo has reached anything like that agreeable position," writes a correspondent to a Wellington newspaper. " The expenditure on the Wellington Zoo last year was £4051, and the receipts £1200, so that menagerie at Newtown Park cost the citizens £2859, or nearly £55 per week. The reserves committee doe 3 not anticipate that the revenue for the current year will be any greater than last year and puts down the estimated expenditure at £4000, but on top of that there is provision in the special expenditure for the purchase of an elephant and the erection of a cage for its reception, £700, so with the expenditure totalling £4700 and estimated receipts only £1200 an even heavier loss is due on the Zoo this year." The fact that legislation is being advanced to permit the City Council to charge admission on Sundays points the way to some little relief from the growing zoological burden.