CUSTOMS RETURNS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 79, 1 April 1908, Page 9

CUSTOMS RETURNS.

I The Customs duties collected at the port of Auckland in the month of March _at amounted to £ 73,326 9/2, as against £60,670 11/2 for the roirespondxQg • month last year, an increase of £ 12,655 = 13/-- The beer duty amounted to £ 2092 8/5, compared with £2210 10/2, a decrease of £118 9/9. , Tie exports were as follows:—

Sold: 22,70' oz 15 dwt, valned at -90.583, as against 34,135 oz 12 dwt 12 gr, valued at £137,052. a decrease of «4o_; oz and £46.469.

Slyer: 59,03S oz 4 dwt, valued at —9051. compared with 101,550 oz, valued j at- £10.817. a decrease of about 12_12 '«and £1766.

P*nry Products: Butter, 2505 cwt, "*»n_d at £14429, compared with 2759 <*st, valued at £14556, an increase of iS cwt and a decrease of £727; cheese, P?m cwt, valued at £3383, as against 299 cwt, valned at £1060, an increase *» 810 cwt and £2323.

.J 1^ 0 - Meats: Beef, 369 cwt, valned at i-517, compared with 47 cwt, valued at £108, an increase of 322 cwt and £409; Briton, 4 cwt, valued at _1, compared -vith _» cwt, valued at £396, a decrease «f 253j cwt and £395; lamb, 3047 cwt, at £6399, as against 8413 cwt, Tl ™*l at £16.441, a decrease of 5366 et and £10._42. No poultry was es- . pcrted last month, but in the same last year 1034 pairs, valued at *~321. were gent away. Fl_x, 392* tons, valued at compared with 10S7 tons, valued g£33.636, a decrease of 695 tons and tow, 87 tons, valned at £560. 15 against 117 tons, valued at £ 1250. a "msse of 30 tons and £690. -_^ aijri Gum: 333 tons, valued at £17,----gj* wnrpared with 854 tons, valued at a decrease, of 521 tons and £32,745.

j .Cereals: Barley. 4 bushels, valued at WiJf • againfit - bea ns an d peas, 95 °™ttia. valued at £24. compared with ™M Baize, 8 bushels, valued at £2, glared with nil,, oats, 171 bushels. ™M 4at £32, compared with 235 SffeK valued at £31, a decrease of teT^* 13 and ajl increase in value of mi wheat, 191 bushels, valued at £47, ~ agausst 127 bushels, valued at £28, ■ e Lr*f ea «e of 64 bnshels ajid £i 9. ■raaber; valued at £9661, w gainst 3,262,5e0ft. valued at £15^519, W? 56 of and £5958. ' Taol: 685,538 lbs, valued at £23504 -with 1,074316 lbs, valued at j≤2^ , a deet eiLse of 385,718 lbs and Baidries; Hepe, 1? valned at -£7, , S,^ 8,1,,8 * Wdes, 158, valned at ' a <! a S ai =st 1425, valued at £1690 I a *w«ji ef 1267 and £1517 f skins, ' fek' 'T £17^e r eempared witi Imo V** v* £2733, » decrease of ■|TISr £a % taHew,.s6 tons, yalaed witi 47. tons, yataed^

at £1398, an increase of 9 tons and £312. GISBORNE, this day. Duties paid at the Custom House in Gisborne for the past three months show a large increase over any previous quarter. They amounted to £11.653. as against £9431 for the same period 61 las-: year.

WELLINGTON, Tuesday. The net duties for the port of Wellington for the finanical year, which closed yesterday, reveal an increase oi £ < G.OS9 on the amount collected during the year 1907-S, and the total Customs receipts, which include miscellaneous receipts and shipping, port _nd light dues, have increased by £97,065. The increase m the beer duty was £2,001. The following are the figures for the year (those for 1907-S being shown in parenthesis) :—Net duties, £842.985 (£766,----895); beer duty, £14,659 (£12.657); total receipts, £554,192 (£757.123). The figures for the quarter just ended are:—Net duties, £226,934: beer duty, £3,959. The month's figures are:— Net duties, £74,510; beer duty, £1.290.