UNAUTHORISED EXPENDITURE.
COUNCILLORS LIABILITY,
Borough Councillors would do well to guard against making grants in excess of the sum allocated for unauthorised expenditure. The Government Auditor has come down on the Levin Borough Council in this connection and has made a demand for a refund from Councillors for £7 0/5. This was the amoimt by whch the allowance for unauthorised expenditure was exceeded. The allowance was £SO and the Council believed themselves to he within the limit. The Government Auditor, however, refused to allow a payment of £ls as a subsidy to the W.E.A. to eome out of the general fund and debited it to the unauthorised expenditure. The result- was that this item was exceeded by £7 0/5, the balance of the unauthorised account being taken up by payments for entertaining the Governor-General during his visit and £2O towards the expenses of Levin-Greatford Railway Commission. The excess, being not. a legal payment, therefore becomes a charge on the individual councillors authorising such disbursement and the Auditor-General demanded its repayment within fourteen days.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2698, 21 February 1924, Page 3
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173UNAUTHORISED EXPENDITURE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2698, 21 February 1924, Page 3
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