FINANCES OF PLAINS COUNTY.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4404, 21 April 1922, Page 4

FINANCES OF PLAINS COUNTY.

BALANCE-SHEET COMPLETED. SOME INTERESTING EXTRACTS. Though there is a great amount of work in the compilation of a county balance-sheet, that of the Hauraki Plains County for the year, 1921-22 is now complete, the clerk, Mr E. Walton, having completed it early in the week, or a little over a fortnight after the close of the financial year. The balance-sheet is now ready for audi.t. Tne more important items ,are picked out and given below. GENERAL ACCOUNT. Receipts include. —Total general rates collected during the year,, £5449 5s 7d; licenses and Sees, £43 15s; Government subsidy on general riatet £5BO Is 10d ; Wharepoa .ferry rent, £76 19s 6d; Komata North ferry rent, £2O ; Hikutaia quarry sale of metal, £219 6s. Payments include. —Ngate.a bridge maintenance, £l9O 12s 6d ; Wharepoa ferry maintenance, £l9l 19s lid; Wharepoa ferry, T.C.C. half cost of administration, £125 141 s 3d ; Komata North ferry maintenance!, £66 0s 9d ; Waitakaruru quarry, £296 Ils 2d; Hikutaia quarry, "£1622 13s sd; poll exoenses, £lOB Ils lOd; county car running expenses, £ll3 3s 2d; rent Netherton store site, £56 15s lOd 1 ; share upkeep Puke bridge), £5O 0s 3d ; share Waihou River Commission, £5O 4s 3d. * RIDING ACCOUNTS, The riding accounts show that monev spdht on works in the. different ridings is as .follows : Turua £579 Is 3d, Waitakaruru £139 7s 4d, Netherton £ll6O 12s 4d, Patetonga £258 16s Bd, Tahuna £438 Os sd. Each riding account, shows a debit balance, and the amounts are as follows : Turua £2297 8s Id/ Waitakaruru £1149 17s, Netherton £lOl9 5s 3d, Patetpnga £903 4s 7d, Tahuna £1549 4s 6d. ASSETS AND LIABILITIES. The statement of assets and liabilities contains the following: Assets. —Cash in bank, loan account), £3136 17s 3d; general rate, 1921-J22 (outstanding), £4464 9s 9d; hospital rate, 1921-22 (outstanding), £1267 9s lid; special rates, 192(121 (outstanding)', £677 16,s 3d; general rate, 1920-21 (outstanding), £9BO Cs 6d.; hospital rate, 1920121 (outstanding), £371 6s 7d. Estimated .assets. — Hikutaia quarry, £2600 ; house at Waitakarurul, £3OO ; motor car, £175 ; punts, £7OO ; office, £170; tractor, £4OO ; horses, drays, harness grader, plough, tools, £B5O. Total assets, £16,093 0s 3d. Liabilities.—Bank overdraft County Fund, £6749 5s 7d; outstanding cheques, £96 16s 7d; outstanding cheques, Netherton Loan Account, £4O; hospital: levy unpaid, £1093 ; balance purchase money Hikutaia quarry. £2000; sundry accounts, £1865. Total liabilities, £11,847 Is Bd.