CITY FINANCE.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 798, 22 April 1910, Page 8

CITY FINANCE.

ANNUAL STATEMENT. Tie CSty Council last night adopted a statement of ordinary receipts and expenditure for the year ending March 31, 1910. The statement includes the following figures:— Receipts. .£. 6. d. Eate . s , ~£ :••-•-• 151,502 2 6 Additional 10 per cent.... 352 4 3 Rents 27,332 1C 10 Licenses „ sjB BB 19 5 Building fees „.. 1427 10 0 Waterworks '. 13,947 n 4 Baths 903 12 4 Town Hall lettinge and proceeds ■ of recitals 2,971 16 11 Library „ 710 15 6 Government subsidy ......... 150 0 0 Cemetery 2,013 15 8 Crematorium ggj 13 4 Pees from reserves ,' 182 11 5 Contribution re dressingshed 90 11 0 Public lavatories .............. m n 4 Pees from Zoo -...™. , 20 18 2 Interest on deposits, etc. ... 802 10 0 Receipts from destructor ... _ 341 15 5 Cost of summonses repaid... 175 7 0 Fire Brigade repayments ... . 514 16 0 Kefund from Sinking Fund (Commissioners) ' 2,727 14 6 Miscellaneous J..™. 603.12 0 •• Total _ 213,654 '4 11 Expenditure. .'" £ e.i. Street works '. 37,275 17 -.7 Scavenging and [street- . watering '. . 6,790 0 7 Collection and destruction of refuse 1 6,577 12 5 Drainage ~—, 5,238 12 8 Fire Brigade (including , interest.\£36o) ; 7,780 18 7 Waterworks—Working, interest, and sinking fund 33,568 410 Street lighting • 7,372 13 9 City reserves ._ 9,496 16 1 Town Hall ...... 4,880 13 2 Salaries 7,080 18 9 Baths ...... - 1,856 10 5 Cemetery -... 1,716 19 8 Crematorium ...... ... 1,388 3 2 Public lavatories ..'.: 157 5 10 Libraries „ 3,770 6 8 Sanitary'services 1,720, 0 0 Printing, advertising, and' stationery • Z :.. .1,589 4 1 Hospital and charitable aid 10,160.14 0 Installation and interest ' ■ Maranui quarry 1,189 9 10 Cost of summonses ■ 200 6 0 Dog-collars and food ........ 117 15 6 Repairs to corporation properties _._.' ■ ■ 136 17 ' 1 Expenditure on Zoo ...__„. 1,723 18 7 Technical School site . 450 0 0 ■Subsidy to city bands '...„.. 250 0 0 New Zealand Academy of Fine-Arts 50 0 0 Technical School subsidy ' (special grant) 400 0: 0 Cleaning, etc, morgue .._.. ' 66 16 10 Publio health expenditure... . 168 9 0 Interest on deposits under ■ Municipal Corporations Aot „.... 116 11 10 Accident claims i».~. *. 11l 6 7 Insurances (indemnity)' ...... 259 12 10 Poundkeepers' losses ......... 20 9 6 Miscellaneous (inoluding polling and office ex- " penses, legal,, fuel and •"• ■'. ■• ■■ . lighting, insurances,'and ■ : 'all sundries) ......„..:._. 6,286 Si Interest on loans ............... 41,715 5 7 Sinking fund. ...... _. 7,507 510 : ■' Credit balance ' 4,403 12 4 Total .... 213,654 411

SPECIAL EXPENDITURE. The special' receipts and expenditure for the same period were set out as follow-.-< ■ , ■ - Receipts. £ e..d. Balance of ordinary receipts and expenditure account.,. 4,403 12 4 Sale of properties, Newtown:.. 849 7 6 Sale of debentures ,to repay .', '>■ ■ ' district fund advances ... 15,430 0 0 Repayments for private drainage -. 423 11 2 Hutt Road, repayments from: other boroughs 564 2 3 Eeceived from abattoirs 1,089 10 9 'Total ; ..... 26,081 8 0 Expenditure. £ e. d. Paid for street widening i.-._. • 1,375 0 0 Deposits returned (contractors and plumbers) ......' 4,369 Iβ 0 Compensation for land-taking 168 0 0 Paid out for abattoirs'. construction .........;. 10,642 4 0 Paid out for abattoirs' working 853 17 11 Upkeep of Hutt Eoad .„ 722 19 6 Credit balance _... 7,949 15 7 'Total . . 26,081 8 0