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CIVIC ECONOMY

Tho City Council *lasl year ended up with a deilel( ol" £1 «2,000p and'Ihotiffii lhere has been tin Ipcil/iiso'in lite races',

thoro'wUH'i' an oat limited dcllcil at the end of Ihr current year (if liJS.OO».,* Iii bider to i educe thh uelúal--lcow<ry,%the councUMias'dccided^on ii policy ol' strict- est economy. In1" the llrst place/tee, ferries to Iw, wiped miUJ'Al the'first eloet'i.ni or the^Ort atpr Brisbane Coun- cil, the present' ptirly^n'power Includ- ed I roc I cirios on their platform. 13*-' pöi'i('ncoi .showed that -.free ,fen los, aro all right in theory, 'jut woiq an aspen slvo/lu-auyj In ptaet/ce. Fieo 'renies

wore, theiofore, not advocated at this

year's elect ion, andr'tile doubío'deficit, has sounded their deitth-lçnell. * Their (il)olitiQn will mean a saving of about'

£30,00ff per year.1' Thorp Js lp be a*rn .spite" from, borrowlngi 'Ali cady th'e council owes,.about 115,000,000,'on ac- count of Joan money,, and ta,vury cfon

S'deiablo portion, of the Vevemio from' lates lum to be emmaj'kéd»for the pay- ment of intpttsst. 'The, further'eonsj.inic-' llon" of m'tiu-ial, ipnds,-al.'endy,r^jhc< ccuinpll;lins ('Pj-islrneted^slipiitíliíniímflos1

of bitumen ind conti tie roads-is to stop and likewise all big: dialnage woiks and new biklgts upai I ol tout st liom the Gie\ City biidgt, -which lt s«ll A\ill lociulte nt atlv tin ce-qu u Ici s pt a million feomowluil diastit i

tionthment is" to bo appjictl to belli Indeoi und otitdöoi starfs- Tia count ii

It may bo mentioned has luid on ils p iv loll the n tmes ol something Uko 0 000 tmplnvtt s Ali cady about OOO ha\ t hi on

di (luted and tlieié is a llklcljood ol Ila

b"Uoi Pail ol anothei Jliotisand li ivin"

to go Tho* c!ü¡su)i, <clo\vn ol loan ton- sil notion u-oilts ajtoj m< ans thal Hitit Will lie nii/moio big ebntiatls foi IJÍÍ-, (ontiiutpis wliO{ will ii hits bl comiiillld to diastitally i «tinco, (lie mimbi i ul linMi employees The ^hallinan at the umn ell S woiks tommUtto has .ilso vtt v

fleinly indicated thti^thoic wjll liavi to nq'a,pi!unjnf, ^mfyalelhe^nic-jic" higlilv paid oíIitiTÍs ol the, council " Tlit chalí n in m of ^ tin- dilfeionl dtpailnionts; (woiks finance, tiansit cltctiic 11/lil paika and lu.al.th) havt bttn medlng as a special sub-commillcc lo decide on whose unfoitímalo nock llu

roticnchmcnl a\o shall full Nal ni til % Its polk v ol economy Is Msplilng a good deal of criticism but tin council finds Itself in a tieft stick The" ma> 01 t ight ly csplnlns the position thus 'Tho council is ciitlplsed 1 bi dismissing mop, nnd a'so for not reducing e\pon<llluio

?yVc have 1 Cached the limit, ol oin fin-

ancial icsouicts and cannot cauv on

at tho same iat< of c\pondiluie as'in

the past* 'Ihls mallei is wrapped, dp in the ívhiiló'economic'siltib.lio'h f We(* ennnot i educe ONpendlturo without íc

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