WEST COAST EAPENDITURE.

West Coast Times, Issue 110, 24 January 1866, Page 3

WEST COAST EAPENDITURE.

Tn tho Provincial Coun.'il on (he 12tl insl-.m , Mr Hall called attention !■ the am >unl. which had b;>en spent on th Won I Cj.ik). Ho would as'c tho Goldfieh. members to examine th > return ju»t lain o.i theiabhi and test its correctness, and j t!iey would see that, after ('duel ing every penny spent, on the West Coa««t road, (hero ha I been an expenditure of .0o.")HI 7s JOil abovo if k rownuo on the West Coast district. These accounts did not include any c\arge on the Goldfields for tho West Const nuil, for the trial of prisoners, or for general provincial purposes j nnd ho trusted Hat it would not bo said that tho district, had not had its revenue spent on it. In cohcl ision, he moved that tho return bo printed. Mr Propser said ho had n-?ver slated that the revenue had not been spent on the West C.'nsr, but, that practically it had not been spent on it. as it had to a great extent been expended in such a manner that fho Woftl Coast had derived jio advanta.'jfo from it Mr Hall lvplied that there was (ho excess of (he cvpcndiliiro over revenue lo which ho had referred, even after every penny of the eo.<l of the We.«t Coast road had' been deducted.— The motion was passed.