CUSTOMS RETURNS.

Auckland Star, Volume XL, Issue 51, 1 March 1909, Page 3

CUSTOMS RETURNS.

The customs duties collected at Auckland during the month of February last amounted to £47,1115. as compared* with £011.732 15/11, a decrease of £22,537 15/11. The beer duty amounted to £2,051> 8/-, as against £2,750 11/-, a. decrease of £304 3/-.

The exports were as follows, the figures for Februiiry, 1908, being given in parentliesis:—(Joid, 24,!)470i5., valued at £98,312 ((2-2.5750z5.. valued at £S(i.4lC); silver, 154,2570z5., valued at £ 15.350 (i:i.3,:i860z5., valued at £13.805): butter, lG,lßsJcwt., value £83.300 (12,389cwt., £e0,033)'; cheese. 1,475J«Wt.. value £-1,101 (1,32.-i £3,7.50): kauri jnm, B,")GJ toiH. value £50,850 (153 tons, £'.).15T): hides. 750, value £G34 (580, £4(52); beef, frozen. 350 quarters, value £(i 43 (-2.08(i quarters, value £3,804); mutton, frozen, 103 carcases, value £142 (245 carcases, value £301); lamb, frozen, Hi,167 carcases, £11,505 (10,">21 carcases, £7,422); phormium, 190 tons, value £3,815 (1,040 tons. £]5,01G); tow, 45 tons, value .£237 (157 tons, £1280): potatoes, 510cwt., value £157; skins. 21,012, vabie £1,031 (19.040, value £1.074); tallow, 7S tons lewt. value £2,027 (15(5 tons, value £4.041); timber, 1,012,104 feet, value £0,7.12 (2.220,----902 feet, value £9.245) : wool. 504,5901b5., value £15,02!) (1,701,2091n5., value £ 56,600).