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Sewers and General Rate.—It will be seen on reference
to the Accounts, commencing on page 148, that the
year commenced with a balance in the Treasurer's hands
amounting to £18,653 5s. 3d. The sum of £56,084 7s. 9½d.
was received during the twelve months, and the expenditure
for the same period reached a total of £58,829 0s. 9d.,
leaving a balance of £15,908 12s. 4½d. on the 25th March,
1894.
Against this cash balance, however, there were, on the
last mentioned date, debts and liabilities properly chargeable
to income amounting to £12,595 11s. 8d., with assets
(exclusive of cash balance) estimated to realise £1,242 13s. 3d.
leaving a surplus of £4,555 13s. 11d. to be carried to the
credit of the present year.
LOANS.
All loans raised by the Vestry for Paving and other
Works have now been paid off.
RATEABLE VALUE.
The assessment of the Parish, as fixed at the general
re-valuation in 1890, gave the following totals:—
Gross value £889,649
Rateable value £743,348
The assessment of new buildings and alterations caused
by variations in the value of old buildings during the
following three years has increased the total assessment of
the Parish to the following amounts :—
Gross value £903,127
Rateable value £754,399