PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1192, 29 July 1911, Page 14

PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS

RETURNS EPITOMISED,

The nominal value of the securities standing in the name of the PostmasterGeneral on December 31, 1910, was X13,701),5"l 11s. 2<1., and the cost price of tlio securities was .£13,725,819 19s. 7d. Tho interest accrued totalled .£150,578 'Is. sd.

Among tho securities held in the nauio of tho Postmaster-General are: Canadian 3 per cents lor .£SOOO, Canadian 21 per cents for ,£I2,GGG 15s. lid, Capo of Good Hppo 3J per cents for ,£2OO, India 3J per cent for £216 14s. 5d.,. India 3 per cents for. i!s2' 135.. 9d., Irish land stock

2J per cents'for ,£IOO, New South' Wales 31 per cents for .£27,000, South Australian 4 per cents for ,£1772 16s. 2d., South Australian 3i per cents for ,£12,000, and Victorian 3 per cents for «C 12,379 19s. 10d. Last year tlio consumption Sf tea in New Zealand was 7,582,5301b., equal to 7.22!b. per head of population, including Maoris. In 1909 the consumption was 7,302,3101b,, to 7.081b. per head. I'ho tobacco consumed in New Zealand last year aggregated 2,295,7771b., equal to (.101b. per head of the adult malo population, including Maoris. In 1909 tho consumption was 2,278,0351b., equal to i.l(lb. per head. Last year Now Zealanders paid in duty on tobacco ,£401,271, and on cigars cigarettes, and snuif .£176,517, the two 'items together being equal to .£1 15s. ad. per Head of the malo population. Ihe consumption of spirits in 1910 is Riven as 767,020 gallons, equal to 2.37'-al-iens per head of tho adult male population, including Maoris; tho consumption ol wine totalled 153,435 gallons, equal to AJ, i? pcr hoad - and ale a nd beer, head Kallons, et^ual to °' 38 gallons per Tho duty paid on the spirits consumed la»t year totalled .£614,096, equal to 3Ss per head of the adult male population eluding Maoris-; the duty on wine to&l& £10,887, equal to Is. ljd. per head of wir- m nf e • T 1 ? P°e i,la «°n over 15 1 I'm* • n ß°> including Maoris I he. income of tho Public Service Superannuation Jj'unrf ior tho year ended December 31, 1910, totalled £ISG MS which included members' ordinan con tn ,• "'J, 00, "Merest .€10,212; balance

During last year the Public Service «u perannuation i'und paid in noS, t n "

pork, .£5807 contributed by local S expenses 'absorbed i 78? Th? nW ? ant l