WAIKOHU COUNTY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19335, 27 May 1937, Page 10

WAIKOHU COUNTY

ESTIMATES ADOPTED TOTAL OUTLAY £39,434 1937-38 RATES 621,490 Tentative, estimates set before the Waiko|iu County Council at its annual meeting yesterday were adopted practically in toto, only two minor alterations being decided on by the council after a lengthy discussion in winch all phases of the county work wore covered. The estimates showed a proposed outlay of £39.424 for the year, of which amount C2L4CO will have to be rated for, the details' of expenditures being submitted as under: £ . General expenditure \ .. 11,020 County roads . . .. lf>,7o(> Highways board's share. 5,552 Grants, Treasury's share .".,i!.~0 £39,434 Estimated receipts. General receipts and H.T. fees, £4000; highways and Treasury grants, £11,802; royalties and licenses, £78:2; To'Worn grant, £150; arrears of rates, £6fio; refunds and outstanding subsidies, £;"50; total, £17,014. Balance (to be provided by general rate), £21,400. Riding Estimates Karaka riding.—Maintenance metalHug, £100; grading, £3B; watertables and drains, £320; culverts, £00; new metalling, £ for £, £no; total £(i;><B.

Kanakanaia riding.— Maintenance metal, £550: grading, £100; , watertables and drains, £875; culverts, £150; building out shoulders, £200; Manuel's culvert, £2 tor £l, £;;24; new metal, £2 for ,tl, £200; shifting cottage, £200; contingencies, £55; sun total, £2711; less subsidies, £1101; total, £152.'!. Motu riding.—Maintenance metal, £22OS; watertables and drains, £1871; grading, £835; patching and building out £.''.oo; realignment, £400; renewing bridges, £2 for £l, £1350; renewing bridges, £1 for £l, £400; groynes, &80; culverts, £400; sub-total, £'iß44; loss subsidies, etc., £4077; total, £3107.

Wailtuka riding. Maintenance metal, £570; new metal, on account, £1000; new metal, £1 for £l, £500; grading, £150; watertables and drains,

£1054; culverts, £200; river protection, £100; patching and building out, £250; bridge replacement, £010; contingencies, £SO; sub-total, £5084; less subsidies, £1150; total, £3934.

Miuigatu riding. Maintenance metal, £550; watertables and drains, £818; grading, £358; culverts, £115; [latching and building out, £150; willow planting in slips, £SO; new metalling, £1 for £l, £100; contingencies, £SO; sub. total, £2107; less subsidies, £402; total, £1705. Waipaoa riding. Maintenance metal, £3SO; watertables and drains, £1000; grading, £173; culverts, £OS; patching and building out, £100; new metalling, £1 for £l, £200; planting slips, £1 for £l, £SO; contingencies, £00; sub-total, £2004; less subsidies, £542; total, £2122. N'gatapa riding. Maintenance metal, £070; watertables and drains, £1221; patching and widening, £450; bridge replacement,- £55(1; culverts, £100; new metal, £3 for £l, £1800; new metal, £2 for £l, £.".00; sub-total, £5307; less subsidies, £2800; total. £2507; grand total, £15,700. •General Expenditure The estimates of general expenditure for 1037-38 arc as follow:

1930:!7 ■ 19: 7-3h Kst. Act. r.st. a £ £ Salaries 1 .v.:. 12811 1375 i ravelling expenses — Chairman 100 HIU 101 I'ouncillors . . i:io 12 ;i 130 .staff :i60 4 04 400 Mlice expenses, advert; 253 217 22 5 Licensing 25 28 2 5 Valuation 100 24 ioo Audit 40 44 4 0 ,egal expenses 75 5(1 50 Zounds 00 88 00 insurance 275 258 2 7 5 )osr registration 125 102 125 l J lant and tools 100 180 500 I'lant repairs -100 240 300 iuilding repairs and renewals 100 100 300 Health inspector 100 68 130 ,'no'k Hospital Hoard 4470 4473 5095 lospital loan, interest and principal 321 321 321 Workers' dwelling's loan 282 282 — Flank overdraft 2f>0 130 200 Public Revenues Act 2") 33 2 5 tebate on rates 400 300 40( Tneniploynient relief 50 — 50 Contributions to other local bodies — 53 25 Miscellaneous 2 5 35 25 Noxious weeds eradication — 185 300 Coronation celebrations and King Oeorge V memorial funds — — 4f 'iaiwitira bridge re450 erection -^ 275 S pairs to surfaceman's cottage and repnintin i — — 15( "cpairs to county bridge s' — — 57f Repairs to stock paddocks — — 100 'Ceitaratnhi and Waikohu bridges 700 — 1 n-Hi