ELECTRIC LIGHTING
BEVENUE FOB NINE MONTHS. The revenue of the city’s electric lighting department for the month of December last amounted to £2745, an increase of £5 compared with the corresponding month of 1908. The working expenses amounted to £2093, an increase of £202. “ This increase in expenditure,” says tho electrical engineer and manager, “is principally duo to tho maintenance cost of public lighting, large replacements in lamps having to be made through damage done by the stormy weather at Christmas time.” The gross revenue for nine months from April Ist last amounted to £36,462—an increase of £7o2' compared with tho previous year. Working expenses amounted to £19,974 or £1023 more than for 1903. The principal increases in expenditure were— Fuel, £654; repairs and maintenance public lighting (charged last year direct to district fund), £638. Under various decreases in expenditure were effected, after allowing for proportion of interest, sinking fund and depreciation, amounting to £13,133, or £lß6l more than last year. The not credit balance for the period was £3353, compared with £5536 for tho preceding year.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7047, 8 February 1910, Page 1
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