FEDERAL CUSTOMS.
• ♦— V LARGE INCREASES. BT lELEGRAFU—PItESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT, Melbourne, March 3. Tho Federal Customs and: excise revenue for tho last eight months totalled £8,059,000; an incrcaso of £1,538,000 over tho Bamo period of last year, New South: Wales contributing -air increase of £710.000, and Victoria £503,000. " ) A3 the new Commonwealth tarifi: originally stood (when first introduced by Sir William Lvno) a total of revenue,; customs and excise; of:.£10,509,000 was anticipated; that, is, yhen the new , tariff h.ul been ,in operation suffici'eiitly long' to enable 'its effect to ;lmve full operation..' As it stood "after passing the Houso'of Representatives it was estimated'to bring in Ji11,140,000,-Unit was " ultimately expected to fall to about .£10,200,000 net, .made up as follows :— Customs, >,£8,110,000j- excise, 22,060,000; total, : V i
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 137, 4 March 1908, Page 7
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125FEDERAL CUSTOMS. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 137, 4 March 1908, Page 7
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