LOAN OF £4000

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 436, 18 May 1937, Page 4

LOAN OF £4000

i BOROUGH STREETS Adoption Of Estimates The raising of a loan of £4,000 for i new street work and the shifting of I the borough sheds was authorised at I a meeting of the Borough Council i last night. ; “The burden to.day is our wide streets, but in years to come they will be a blessing,” said the Mayor, Mr J. W. McMillan, in emphasising the need -for attention to roads in view of the considerable increase in traffic. Correspondence had appeared in the Press complaining of the I state of 'the footpaths in some parts of the borough, but it was most essential, he said, that the roads should first be attended to. Es imates were approved as follows: — Receipts. License fees, £1279; rents, £1126; refund's. 1 and sundries, £500; subsidy on rates, £324; rest room, £43; library, £324; Town Hall, £144; abattoir, £1290; domains, £200; cemetery ,fees>, £260; main highways, £400; electricity account, £.14,500; extra water, £1140; sanitai'.ion, £1000; water rates, £1650; aerodrome, £408; from last year, £400; special rates, iSdi, £2250; general, 4 l-16d, £5456. Total/£32,594. Expenditure. Office salaries, £542; inspector, £325; ranger, £isB; office expenses, £.2.10; honorarium, £75; audit, £75; licensing, £2O; valuation fees, £25; public lighting, £860; fire prevention, £258; reserves, £325; Hospital Board, £933; rest room, £117; hand, £110; National Park Board, £2O; town clock, £l5; sundry, £200; adver ising, £100; abattoir, £1200; i library and reading room, £375; cemetery (Koputama), £290; cemetery (old), £39; Town Hall, £1269; water and drainage, £1000; sanitation, £1000; horses, drays, motors, i £550; domains, £618; bank interest, I etc., £146; streets, £29.48; electric- | ityi, £1.1,754; interest and repap- ! ments, £6923; interest andi repay- ! ments public baths loan, £245; inI tercet and repayments new loan I £4OOO, £280; aerodrome, £200; housling survey, £4O; King George v. I Memorial, £2O; contingencies, £100: [swimming baths, £117; No. 5 scheme 1 (completion of levelling job), £212. [Total, £32.594.