BOROUGH FINANCE.

Wairarapa Age, 27 May 1936, Page 4

BOROUGH FINANCE.

HEAVY EXPENDITURE AHEAD. MAYOR’S REFERENCE TO RATES. "I agree wholeheartedly that they are doing good work, but it is all a matter of £. s. d.,” remarked the Mayor, Mr. T. Jordan, when replying to Councillor W. White, who at last night’s meeting of the Borough Council expressed disappointment at the faet that the Council had refused to make a grant to enable the Y.M.C.A. to carry on its community work, “If you are prepared to shoulder the liability on to the ratepayers, you can subsidise all these organisations,” Mr. Jordan added. Referring to expenditure with which the Council would He faced at the estimates meeting, Mr. Jordan said that a circular had been received from the Government recommending that theCouncil should endeavour to fill in the broken time of men on relief works at the rate of 2s an hour. Should that bo necessary, it would mean an expenditure of £lO5O a year. “I think,” Mr. Jordan observed, “that when you come to strike the rates you will be doing something that you have not done for years. ’ ’

Councillor A. Bippon: “It is all going to cost the Borough something.” Mr. Jordan: “The limits the sky.”