SATISFACTORY RECEIPTS

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1067, 3 September 1930, Page 11

SATISFACTORY RECEIPTS

“£IO,OOO BETTER OFF” HARBOUR BOARD’S FIGURES “Our cash receipts are eminently satisfactory. On both our accounts we are £IO,OOO better off in receipts this year than last,” said the chairman, Mr. M. H. Wynyard, at the Harbour Board's meeting yesterday afternoon. The report of the treasurer and accountant stated that there had been an increase of £265 in cash receipts for August and an increase of £11,731 for the 11 months as compared with similar figures last year. There was still a good margin in the estimates to account for any serious declension in September, the receipts in excess of the proportion of the year’s estimates being £13,606 after deducting the Manukau deficit, £1,086. Waitemata receipts were summar-

The Manukau receipts were consistently falling from the 1929 level. There was a decrease of £3O for August and a decrease of £1,348 for the 11 months of the year. This showed a deficit of £1,086 on the estimates for the year.

ised as follow:A ug. , 1 1 Inc. Dee. 1930. Mths. 11 Mths. £ £ Admiralty subsidy — 5,000 Renta 4,072 53,179 Ciooda wharfage 12,302 150,138 4,998 "Vehicular tolls 290 3,790 Shipping charges 6,353 75,87 4 4,186 Crajie dues 3,786 41,276 2,197 hock and slipway 658 7,127 1.036 Storage on goods 1,065 15,907 129 lighting wharves 218 2,770 463 Water supply 681 8,657 607 Miscellaneous . 755 6,997 632 — 30,178 370,715 13,230 1,499