Details about Charters Towers City Council Works Program Budget for 1952/1953 Financial Year

Below is an extract about Charters Towers from the Townsville Daily Bulletin newspaper on Saturday, 22nd March 1952:

CHARTERS TOWERS, March21. — Charters Towers City Council works programme during thefinancial year 1962-53 is expectedto cost £23,000. Application to the Department of the Co-ordinator General of Public Works for loans totalling this amount has been made. The £23,000 is to be expended on bitumen surfacing of the city streets (£11,600), the mechanization of the sanitary cleansing service (£8,400), Improvements and additions to the city swimming baths (2.500), and the eradication of mosquito breeding areas (£600). The bitumen surfacing of streets is estimated to cost £17,600. However, In making application for a loan during the financial year of 1952-53, the Council has only had to apply for a loan of £11600 to cover the cost. A Government debenture loan of£4,000, together with a subsidy of£2,000, has already been granted. The Charters Towers Fire Brigade Board has received advice from the Government of approval for the calling of tenders for a fire engine and extension ladder. With a view to providing some permanent recognition of a memorial to the humane work carried out In Charters Towers by Mr.George Foy, the Charters Towers City Council is to open a subscription list at the City Hall. Council took this decision at its monthly meeting. The Mayor(Alderman J. D. Cunningham) said that tbe money raised wouldbe used in making a permanent record to the history of ChartersTowers of the valuable and kindly work performed by the late Mr.Foy. It Is probable that the Council record will be In the form of amonument on Mr. Foy’s Grave.