BOROUGH FINANCE.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LX, Issue 143788, 11 May 1912, Page 7

BOROUGH FINANCE.

ESTIMATES FOR THE COMING YEAR. The Estimates Committee of the New Plymouth Borough Council will report as follows to the ordinary mcnthly meeting of the council to bo hold on Monday evening next: That in anticipation of revenue an overdraft not exceeding £IO,OOO ho arranged for, at interest not to exceed 6 per cent. That tho Mayor and each of the Councillors be empowered to countersign cheques on the District Fund Account; that tho Mayor’s honorarium be fixed at £l5O for the ensuing year; that a road grader be purchased at an estimated cost of £100; that the salary of the borough engineer be increased to £275 per annum as from Ist Juno; that tile salary of tho electrical engineer bo increased to £3OO per annum ns from Ist June; that the following ho the estimated receipts and expenditure for the ensuing years:—• RECEIPTS. Subsidies. Government subsidy, £360. Licenses. —■ Under Licensing Act, £301; Borough by-laws and Auctioneers’ Act, £450; rent for reserves, £745; Avenue Road reserve rent, £C6. Reimlmrstenients.—Streets, £350 j waterworks, £3O; drainage fees and extensions, £150; drainage agreements, £SO; numbering bouses refund, £6O; electric light refund advance, £328. Genera).—Fire Board, £lO5 ; dogs, £110; rent Town Hall, £2O; baths, £7O; Carnegie Library', £100; sundries, £210; electric light, £6500; special rate, £4470; water rate: domestic supplies, £1050; extra water supplies, £1800; 10 per cent penalty on rates, £35; general rate on £7129, £3220; Fitzroy general rate, £375; Fitzroy nndpr deed of adjustment, £185; Hurworth general rate estimated on (610,320, £545; estimated increase in overdraft, £3Ol. Total, £22,112.

Office.—Salaries, £653; Mayor, £150; advertising, stationery, etc., £200; audit, £2O; sundries, £2O. Streets.—Labour, metal and maintenance, £2500; horses, etc., £240; carter’s cottage, £286; concrete kerb and channelling, £300; asphalting and tarring, £200; tar sprtiycr, £8.3; forage, £280; "plant, materials and repairs, £250; road grader, £100; numbering houses, £6O; rent borough yards, £37; electric motor £200; lighting streets, £785.

Borough Engineer’s Office.—Borough Engineer, _ £2d ; engineer's assistant, £52; stationery, etc., £6O; £383 less to he charged loan, £170; £213. Reserves.—Upkeep, £100; Town Hall, £BS; Carnegie Library, including liabilities (£66), £285. Subsidies.—Hospital Board, £503; FirO Board, £375; Technical School, £25; Recreation Grounds Board, £150; Western Park Board, £SO; library, £100; hand, £l2. General. —Sundries, £200;" Bank interest and charges, £100; general inspector and office, £166; interest on loans and sinking funds, • SSG4 (less included in electric light) £4490; electric light, £6500 ; _ post office clock, lighting and winding, £3O; electoral roll, £SO; licensing, £35; rubbish depot, £SO; drainage £6O; drainage agreements, £300; election and polls, £45; Greater New Plymouth (polls, etc.), £6O; competitive designs, Town Hall, £25; by-laws, £SO; baths, £170; dog collars, etc., £ls; waterworks, £1000; Waiwakaiho Bridge, £125; Honui Bridge, Junction Road, £100; Fitzroy ; laud, £212; Fitzroy pound, £3O; Fitzroy deed of adjustment. £25. Total; £22,112.