AUCKLAND RETURNS

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 102, 1 May 1937, Page 15

AUCKLAND RETURNS

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) ''- '■"::? AUCKLAND,;: April 30.

A general increase hv! Customs and excise duty- and also;in sales tax is shown in the'returns of .Auckland collections for April-compared with those for'the" corresponding : month last year,- .Customs 'duty,, including motor spirit duty and tyre, duty, totalled £380.755, an increase of £65,153 over the figure of £315,602 for April, 1936. The total from these sources for the first four months of the present year was ' £1,409,972, compared with £1,318^610 in the corresponding period last year. .The combined receipts of motor'spirit duty and tyre duty in April amounted to £72,147, or £16,993 more than the figure,1 of £55,154 for •April; 1936." Excise on beer collected in;i..A'pril^mounted to, £14,267, against £■"12.385 inV'April last- year, a rise of £1882: V.'V' "''•• ■■ ""■' ' '

' : Sales tax in April produced £92,296, a-rise of ,£23,072'0ver the total of £ 69.224 collected in April, 1936. , For the first;.; four months of the present year tlie sales tax ~ amounted to £321;964,. against £253,239 in the corresponding period of 1936, a difference of £68,725.