WELLINGTON CITY FINANCES

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1626, 29 April 1903, Page 72 (Supplement)

WELLINGTON CITY FINANCES

LAST fEAR/S REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE. The receipts of the Wellington Corporation from general revenue for the year ended 31st March amounted to £111,686 13s 6d, made up as follows Bates, £78,971 13s 3d; rents, £14,280 19s 4d; licenses, £5171 8s 6d ; building and sanitary fees, £llßs 10s; water sold (a) to the public £3345 Ids 3d, (b) to Government £1658 12s 8d r (c) to Harbour Board £3327 17s 2d; cemetery account, £1471 10s 3d; paths account, £337 11s 2a; libraries account (subscriptions, etc.), £502 7s sd; interest from Harbour Board, £507: Government subsidy and sundries, £920 8s 6a. The following were the tramway receipts:—Fares, £26,690 os 4d: advertising on cars, £221 os; conveyance of mails, £125; horses sold, £193 Is 9d; plant sold, £217 10s 3d; sundries, £43 5s 2d: total, £27,940 7s 6d. Under the head “ Loan moneys,” the following are the figures: —Street-widening loan, £53,800; repayments, £7202 6s; contractors’ and plumbers’ deposits, £6057 Jls 8u; land and buildings sold, £1361 18s Bd. The total receipts amount to £207,598 17s 4d. The total expenditure for the same period amounts to £222,057 16s lid. The items of expenditure for general city services tv ere as follows: —Light-

mg, £3462 15s 7d; scavenging and street watering, £3129 la 8d; refuse and; destructor. £3770 9s 3d; road metal, £5394 5s sd; timber, cement and other material, £2513 0s 8d; labour, £7247 6s 7d; purchase and keep of horses, £llsl 17s sd; drainage working account, £6769 13s 4d: total, £38,443 5s Id. Upon city properties the expenditure was as follows: — Waterworks, £10,083 19s 6d; Fire Brigade, £3300 Ss 3d; baths, £539 17s 3d ; libraries, £2338 12s 6d: cemeteries, £735 18s 9d; city reserves, £3700 5s 4d ; tramways working account, £23,493 10s 7d: totai, £44,192 11s Bd. The following were the items of expenditure under the head of “Administration”:— Salaries (general account only), £5022 3s 9d; public health account, £402 7s 4d; office wages, printing, advertising, stationery, insurance, stamps and sundry expenses, £4112 2s 7d: total, £9536 13s Bd. For charitable aid and hospital purposes, the sum expended was £6382 4s 4d, and there was also a sum of £483 11s od for Coronation expenses. The items of expenditure for buildings and public works were: — South Wellington Library, £1176 5s 2d ; morgue, £748 9s 3d; Te Aro baths and widening Clyde quay, £1613 4s 9d; Town Hall, £14.046 17s 9d; streetwidening, £51,469 16s 9d; electric tramways, £5797 16s 4d ; street-paving £2543 14s 7d; drainage on deferred payment, £864 17s; street works, £176 5s Id: total, £78,437 6s Bd. Other items are:—lnterest accounts, £42,751 17s sd; sinking fund accounts, £3365 12s; miscellaneous, £3469 9s lOd. Tho figures have been prepared by Mr J. E. Page, City Treasurer, for the information of members of the Council, but the balance-sheet is not yet ready, as it is under the inspection of the Government Auditor.