BOROUGH ACCOUNTS

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 564, 22 June 1933, Page 4

BOROUGH ACCOUNTS

^"ULL LIST WANTED PRESENT PRACTICE NOT • CONSIDERED TO BE SATISFACTORY A BRISK DISCUSSION Dissatisf action with the practinn i | the Rotorua Borough Council b W i'ng the examination of all account to its Finance Committee before su? mitting them to the council f0r rZ ment was expressed at last nijjJ* • council meeting by several counciflow A list of the accounts was requesLi , and after a brisk discussion, it decided that such a list should in Z ture be supplied to eouncillors n mayor said that the preparatio'n of 1 full list would entail a tremendom ••amount of work hut other eouncillors contended that the information should be supplied. •• • Cr. G. Steele said that he wanted to know, before passing the accounts h'ow much money had come in since ■March 31 to pay accounts. "The Mayor (Mr. T. Jackson) said that a ononthly statement was sub mitted to the council but this raonth" pressure of business had prevented it going out. However, all accounts had to he suhmitted to the Finance Committee, which satisfied itself as to' the" correctness oi the figures and also that the money was there to pay-them The council was at present running on overdraft and accounts were being paid from overdraft. Cr. Steele said that eouncillors did not know the position. _ Waifmg For Estimates Cr. 0. H. Coleman said that the Finance Committee realised that councillors were in the daik but as soon as the estimates came in from the committees, the Finance Committee would he able to give full details. The Mayor said that since March 31, the sum! of £6,800 had come in. Cr. Goodson asked that a full list of accounts he tabled. The mayor said that it was not cus" tomary. The Finance Committee dealt ' with them. Cr. Steele: They used to be puhlished in the local paper. The mayor: Not since I've been mayor. Cr. Goodson: .Well I think it's most irregular. Every other local hody isees ,the accounts. J suggest that the Finance Committee jpass the accounts, not us. Cr. Steele: And we don't know whai we're passing or if there is any money to pay it. Cr. J. Banks: The Hospital Board • sees all accounts. Cr. 'Woolliams asked if each com- 5 rnittee did not pass its own, accounts. : The Mayor: No, the Finance Com- j mittee. It used to ihe the practice for | each committee to certify its own ac. } counts before the Finance Committee ;; passed them. Cr. Steele: Can we have a list, lj The Mayor. Most certainly; only ;i it will ientail jan enormous jamount j of work. On the motion of Crs. Banks and .1 Goodson, it was decided to supply a \ list. Cr. Coleman expllained that each I account was eertified to hy the en- J gineer and the clerk before being 1 passed. "I hope you don't think that i there has been anything slip*-shod," he 1 said. i Crs. Steele and Banks: Oh no not 1 at all. We just wanted to know. j