HEAVY TRAFFIC FEES.

Wairarapa Age, 22 March 1935, Page 5

HEAVY TRAFFIC FEES.

ALLOCATIONS FOB WATRARAPA DISTRICT. FIGURES FOR PAST QUARTER. The heavy traffic fees received and allocated by the Masterton County Council for the licencce quarter ended February 28, 1935, in accordance with the agreement as advised by the Commissioner of Transport, are as follows, the fees for the corresponding quarter, 1933-34, being shown in parentheses:— Fees Received. Counties: Masterton, £74 4s 8d (£74 16e 6d); Featherston, £230 18s lid (£219 15s lid); Wairarapa South, £lOO 13s (1638 Is 6d); Pahiatua, £132 0s 2d (£133 14s 4d); Eketahuna, £42 10s 9d (£42 2s 7<Tri Akitio, £64 16s 2d (£59 4e); CaaMghit, £7 8s Id (£lO 9s 2d). Boroughs: Masterton, £492 0e 5d (£544 9s 8d); Pahiatua, £6l 6s 4d (£6* 5s 9d); Featherston, £ll7 17s 8d (£ll7 12s 4d); Greytown, £29 16s 5d (£5l 14s 3d); Carterton, £llB 5s lid (£lO2 13s 7d); Eketahuna, £26 5s (£J9 5e «d). Total fees received for the licence quarter, £1,498 3s 6d (£1,467 5s Id); less 1) per cent, commission to Masterton County Council, £22 9s 6d (£22 0s ■Id); net total, £1,475 14« (3,445 5»). Allocation. Counties’ proportion, 80 per cent £l,lBO Ils (£1,083 18s 9d); boroughs* proportion, 20 per eent. £295 3s (£361 6s 3d). | Apportionment to boroughs: Masterton Borough Council to receive 40 per cent, of the fees apportioned between the boroughs in the district, the remaining boroughs to have the balance equally divided. Masterton, £llB Is 2d (£144 10s 6d); Pkhiatua, Featherston, Greytown, Carterton, Eketahuga, Martinborough, £29 10s 4d each (£36 2s 8d each); total, £295 3s (£361 «s 3d). ’ Apportionment to counties: (To be distributed on the undermentioned percentage basis): Masterton, 21.35 per eent. £252 0s lid (£231 8s sd); Featherston, 21.56 per cent. (£254 10s 63 (£233 13s lOd); Wairarapa South, 16.41 per cent. £193 14s 7d (£177 17s 7d); Pahiatua, 14.06 per cent. £165 19s 8d (£152 8s); Eketahuna, 10.42 per cent. £123 0s 3d (£ll2 18s lid); Akitio, 8.02 per cent. £94 13s 7d (£B6 18s 8d); Castlepoint, 4.64 per cent £54 15s 7d (£5O 5s lid); Mauriceville, 3.54 per cent. £4l 15s lid (£3B 7s sd); total, £l,lBO Ils (£1,083 18s 9d). Note.—(For the licence quarter ended February 28, 1934, the allocation was on the following basis:—Counties, 75 per cent.; boroughs, 25 per eent.