FINANCES OF MIRAMAR.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1106, 20 April 1911, Page 2

FINANCES OF MIRAMAR.

CREDIT OF JC1250 FOR THE TEAK. TRAMWAYS LOSS, jEiill.. At his meeting last evening, Mr. G. Brodio, Mayor of Mirainar, said that, as a result of the operations of tho year ended March 31, the council would' carry forward a. credit balance of JC1250, as compared with last year. This had been done in the fnce of n reduction of jd. in the rates for tho year. Tho new council taking office would havo that balance to carry on with, with the prospect of another reduction of id. in Hie £ in the rates (his year. Afc present they were in a positon to say (hat Miramar was anion? tho lightest-rated boroughs in the Wellington-district. During the year n, good deal of improvement work had been/ cnrriod.'.ont—street improvements, erection of bathing-shelters, street lighting (including the substitution of metallic filament for carbon lamps along flip tramway track), tree-planting, etc., The total Io«s on the tramways for tho year was £\"i\ (including interest, maintenance interest' on half cost of lunncl and proportion of roading), as against ,£2200 approximately Irifet year. An alteration had been made in the running of the cars, whereby tho borough got a twenty minutes' pprvico to tho junction throughout tho day, a forty-minute service to tho termini during the.busier hours, and an cighty-minutc fervics to the termini in slack hours. The object of tho twenty-minuto service lo (he junction was to enable people lo get to. and leave a central point in tho borough at practi. pally all hours, besides which it iravo the borough a riitht-tbrough (the city) wrvieo, and enabled-them to put on n special at a few minutes' notice, instead of having to give two or three hours' notice to tho tramway authorities.