BOROUGH ESTIMATES INCREASED BY £3991

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19340, 2 June 1937, Page 13

BOROUGH ESTIMATES INCREASED BY £3991

TOTAL OF £81,266 £32,535 IN LOAN COSTS ROADTXG OUTLAY £21,9-12 An expenditure of £51,200 is provided for in the borough estimates, which were tabled at last night’s meeting- of the Gisborne Borough Council. This is an increase of £3991 on the previous year. Slightly more than half of the total outlay, £42,380, or £2367 more than last year, has been set down for general requirements, including £21,912 for streets formation and maintenance expenditure, A sum of £32,531) is required to meet interest and sinking fund on loans, together with transfers, this being an increase of £751 from last year. Expenditure Summarised A summary of the total estimated expenditure is given in the following table, with comparative figures for last rear:—

General Expenditure Estimated general expenditure is shown as under, the figures in parentheses being those I’or the past; year:— Debit balance, 1/4/57 (£105), nil; interest on overdraft and discount on rates (£1500), £1500; outstanding account (£500), £51)0; totals (£2103), £2OOO. Sanitations.—Materials, advertising, printing, insurance, etc. (£550), £-100; proportion horse teams account (£.'!75), £425; salaries and wages (£2415), £2940; draught horse (£SO), nil; totals (£5190), £5705.

Drainage and Sewerage. —Pumping [lower (£850), £850; materials, renewals, printing, insurance, etc. (££00), £275); salaries and wages (£!>.".2), £905; reinstating earthquake damage £(50), £SO; one half-draught horse (nil), £2O; cleaning Ivaiti septic tank (£100), £SO; .1 Sin outfall drain septic, tank to sea (£B-10), nil; retaining wall Valiev road drain (nil), £.‘010; totals (£2972), £2570. .Reserves and House Property. — Materials, printing, insurance and rent (£600), £600; wages (£1582), £1561; concrete fence posts, Childers 'Road Reserve (nil), £100; eradication noxious weeds, Gentle Annie (nil), £SO; contribution Waihirere Domain Board (£25), £25; lawn mower croquet courts (nil), £SO; subsidy Beautifying Association (£100), subsidy children's playground, Butene Bond Reserve (nil), £SO; totals (£2107), £2516. Macrae Bath. —Caretaker (£.150), £150; pumping (£3O), £-10; painting (£4O), £10; materials (£4O), £7O; totals (£240), £250.

Miscellaneous.—-Pound and dog tax collection (£200), £200; contingencies (£500), £500; cemetery (£246), £267; donation King George V memorial (nil), £100; grants and unauthorised expenditure (£550), £650; housing survey (nil), £205; lighting and maintenance town clock (£7O), £7O; hospital levy (£5748), £6551; Fire Hoard levy (£1090), £1471; grant to bus department, depreciation reserve (£454), £450; interest workers’ dwelling loan (£520), £520; superannuation fund contribution (£500), £500; water supply investigation (£550), (nil); total (£10,228), £1 1,284. Administration. Office expenses, etc. (£1500), £1600; honorarium (Mayor), (£225), £225; salaries (£2208), £2229; revaluation of borough (£250), £250; election expenses (£100), £100; totals (£1285), £440-1. Streets and Bridges.—Salaries and wages (£9715), £9642; car allowance, engineer (£100), £100; casual labour (£400), £400; proportion of horse teams (£200), £240; bridge maintenance (£500), ,£500; gravel for maintenance (£1000), £957; gravel, washed (£455), £566; Napier shingle (£575), nil; metal for maintenance (£150), £525; Motuhora metal chips (£215), £1020; Palntahi screenings (£600), £600; spawls (£125), nil; bitumen (£1700), £2300; coal and firewood

(£500); £500; motor lorry running expenses (£835), £835; street lighting (£.1300), £1300; sundry tools and materials (£700), £800; rents, insurance, legal expenses (£250), £250; ’phones, printing, .advertising and office expenses (£130), £150; repairs and maintenance of' plant (£200), £200; marking traffic lines (nil), £SO; motor repairs (£214), nil; llirini street culvert and Ormond road footpath (£100), nil; Hospital Hill road (refundable InHospital), (£576), nil; mechanical grader .(nil), £650; footpath, Rutene road (nil), £200; footpath, Ormond road (nil), £SO; korbing and channelling Gladstone road (nil), £207; totals (£9655), £11,260, TRADING ACCOUNTS Abattoir

Estimated expenditure.—Debit balance (£BS), nil; administration (£170), £170; Government, inspection (£140), £150; interest and sinking fund (£215), £245; salaries and wages (£1652), £1621; materials, repairs, printing, water supply and insurance (£150), £200; estimated credit balance (nil), £52; total (£2440), £24.18. Estimated revenue.—Credit balance £18; fees, rent, etc. (£2275), £2400; estimated debit balance (£165), nil; totals (£2-1-10), £2418. Motor Omnibus Estimated expenditure.—Debit balance (£l-1-15), £1689; salaries and wages (£4006), £40.15; oils, etc. (£150), £150; benzine (£2450), £2145; repairs, renewals and tyres (.6755), .61021; in terest on capital (£256), nil; tickets, licenses, insurance, etc. (£600), £-117; administration, rent, rates, superannuation (£175), £165; capital outlay from revenue, faro registers (£500), .6500; miscellaneous (£SO), £SO; depreciation reserve (£454), £607; totals (£10,597), £10,585.

Estimated revenue.—Fares (£7700), .67650; hospital subsidy (£156), £156; special trips and sundries (£250), £185; sale benzine other departments, (£500), £556; advertising on 'buses (£18), £18; transfer general account, depreciation reserve (£45-1), £450; debit balance (estimated) (.01:519), .61572; totals (£10,597), £10,585. Waterworks Estimated expenditure.— Debit: balance (£6BO ), £550) ;. materials, printing, insurance, rates (£100), £500; administration (£150), £150; salaries and wages (£1098), £1125; pumping (£500), £500; purchase meters (£150), £150; chlorination plant (£110), £110; motor vehicle expenses (£120), £.l2(£; • one horse (nil), £10; purchase pipes (£600), nil; new motor lorry (nil), £275; wafer investigation (nil), £1.00; totals (£5814), £5-126. Estimated revenue. Sale water (.62200), £2200; connections (£150), '.£200; sales of materials (£100), £250; estimated debit balance (£1004), £776; totals (£5Bl-1), £5126. Aerodrome Estimated expenditure.—Sundry expenses (£25), £25; estimated credit Itajpnce (£170), £179; totals (.6195), £204. Estimated revenue.—Credit balance (£95), £104; reyt (£100), £100; total (£1950, £2O-1.

103 V-5 s lnc. £ £ General .. 39,74.1 42,380 2,307 Hospital .. 5,748 (5,351 003 Loan charges 31,784 32,535 751 Totals .. 77,275 81,200 3,001 Expenditure undet the various headings is estimated as follows, the past year’s estimates also being given:— 1930-37 1037-38 £ £ O/d int. & outst. a/es 2,103 2.000 Sanitation 3,190 3,705 Drainage & sewerage 2,972 2,570 Reserves & houses .. 2,107 2,510 Macrae bath 210 250 Milccllaneoiig, Administration 1 (1,288 4,283 11,28 1 4,40-1 Streets & bridges 19,792 21,912 Totals for general 45,491 48.731 Loan charges 31,784 32,535 Grand totals 31,784 l The petrol tax and heavy t raliic expenditure was included in t h e streets estimated expei d if ure. Estimated Receipts Estimated receipts were shown as follows:— 1030-37 .1937-38 £ £ Credit balance general account — 1,170 Govt, subsidy on rates Rate arrears £12,500 301 450 estimated to collect general rate only 5,500 4,000 Fees, dog tax, buildings, etc. 450 500 Licenses Rents, workers’ dwel2,100 2,100 lings 500 500 Rents, general 1,000 1,000 Miscellaneous 250 250 Fees, Maerae bath .. Local body cnnlribu120 100 tions, bridge maintenance 150 Refund Cook Ilospital road formation 825 Sale of materials <fc refun d s from loans for services 500 500 Hospital levy 5,748 G,351 Petrol tax 2,300 2,550 Heavy traffic fees .. Trading department’s 750 soo administration fee 350 375 General rate of 5:]d £ o n unimproved value estimated at £1,171,830 Special rates 24,527 28,025 30,800 30,083 Transfers 024 1,852 Totals 77,275 81.200