COST DETAILS SOUGHT

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 605, 6 March 1929, Page 16

COST DETAILS SOUGHT

MT. EDEN’S TRANSPORT EXPENSES

GREATER THAN CITY’S

According to Mr. E. J. Phelan, speaking at yesterday afternoon’s meeting of the Auckland Transport Board, the expenses of the City Council in connection with the Transport Commission and the Transport Board Act were about £ 1,000. This fact brought a request from Mr. Phelan that certain sections of the account from the Mount Eden Borough Council, amounting to £1,733 16s 3d, should be investigated. Mr. Phelan did not object to the item for £52 17s 6d for the costs of printing and obtaining signatures to the petition, and £45 18s 9d for the travelling expenses of delegates to Wellington, but he thought that fees for four counsel and for accountancy, totalling £1,635, should be gone over. “I want to know if the board is compelled to pay all this,” Mr. Phelan said. COST DETAILS SOUGHT A report to the board recommended that the travelling fees should be paid, but the board, it said, was the sole judge as to the amounts to be paid in the other two items. A request for detailed bills of costs was advised by the report, which said that consideration of payment could then be made. The recommendations were adopted. “Did you receive the details of the accounts?” the chairman, Mr. J. A. C. Allum, was asked by Mr. E. H. Potter. “It is now proposed to ask for the details,” Mr. Allum said.

A schedule of accounts from constituent districts in connection with the transport poll, involving £613 13s 6d, was passed for payment.