CUSTOMS REVENUE.
TOTALS FOR AUCKLAND.
NOVEMBER SHOWS INCREASE.
DECLINE OVER .ELEVEN -.MONTHS.
;;. An Increase of £14,654 '.lis shown ; In revenue -from Customs -duties in; Auckland last-month. • Duties amounted ''■ to £174^007,; against •'• £159,353 in November, 1930; One reason for this, is thought, to,he: that merchants .refrained from -fihalising' -Christmas .orders yuntil the last "minute' on account of the uncertainty of the "exchange' position. A decrease is, however, shown in the totals for the' first; 11. months of the year as; compared with 'the , figure■;'■ for the same period last' year. The respective amounts > were £1,416,596 and £2,007,392, ,or a decrease of . £590,796. The; revenue j from Customs duty in the past 11 compared with the ■same period last year; was as under:—
." -1931; 1930. ;:,■ • ■' -; • £■ .;'.:' & January ....... . • 139,557' 187,830 February ....;..... 130,503 . . 185,981 March ..........129,536" ,190,057 Afiril ............ 102,970 174,732 May ..........;.;■• 80,676. 147,840 Tune ...,.;....;. 134.26S 180,272 j u lv ..... 121,595 164.59;> Aiiffiist ..'...•..... 118,981 ■ 228,710 September ........ 136,005 :# 169,884 October • .. 148,498 , 206,188 November: ........ .174,007' 159,303 Totals • ...... £1,416,596 £2,007/392 For the .past. 11 months.the revenue from "duty on'beer amounted to £94,268, as .against £102,559 in. the corresponding period last year,, or a • decrease of i£8331. ~- .'. . . . ~ Appended is a comparison :of ; the; receipts , from petrol taxation and tyre duties ?for the 11 months of r this- and -last-year:—; ' .. '"" ..?••"--.. , ! " 1931. " 1930. : '■; ■' •':"' : ' : -'■:'■?'&•.''' :'"-' : ':j-'&'■:■ January ..1.". •.... '■• 44,689 "' 41,820 February ........... 40;835 * 30,649 March ........:...; 50,100 ■ 32,423 April ........ . 48,289. - 35.224 May 40,281 . 32,937 .Tune ... ....... 43,594 .' 36,916 July .-'..'. 54,680 *." 35,619 August • ............. \' 32,461 ; - 38,489 September . ........ ,43,137 . ' ;36,520 Octobers ■-•■. i-.v.--./- 1 4'4,501' . : '38,201 November .•••••; 37;951 - „ ; . 46,487
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 285, 2 December 1931, Page 9
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248CUSTOMS REVENUE. Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 285, 2 December 1931, Page 9
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