COUNTY COUNCIL AND ROAD BOARDS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1259, 21 May 1884, Page 2

COUNTY COUNCIL AND ROAD BOARDS.

To the Editor. Sir, —Will you kindly insert the following statement of the Wakanui Boat Board’s expenditure, etc,, for the last three years. Mr Walker in your hut night’s issue bad evidently hot the coned figures of expenditure and expenses, ai far as this Board is concerned, when hj drew his statement comparing tbs'working of the Council and the Boards I think in justice to the Boards he shouli have taken the three years. 1881. ; : b -- Expenditure ... ... ... 2140 3 5 Expenses, ;£3so 5s 4d,'less com- ' mission on rates collected, £B9 13s *.» ... ... 260 12 4 Percentage ... ... ... 12 o o 1882. Expenditure ... ... ... 1834 o n Expenses, £441 19s lid, less commission on rates and rents, £jj 12s 6d 364 '9 S Percentage 19 ®-. 1883. Expenditure 104* 0 ♦ Expenses, £269 3s pd, less commission on rates and rents, £87103 18* *3 9 Percentage (an avenge of i6}4 per cent, for 3 years) ... *7 10 0 Under expenses I include dork, aurveyor, 5 rate collector, legal feos, brokof*’ fcss, office expenses, rates on Board • perty, advertising, printing and incidental. Expense of collecting rates has bash deducted, as the collection of revsnasi I* should not be charged against the' expenditure on public works, especially in tlx* case, when the Boards have had to exist on rates, whereas the Couspil bu not .till; the last year struck a rate.—l am, Francis T. M4TO, ; Chairman Wakanui Road Board, i,.