RETURNS INCREASE

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 59, 2 December 1933, Page 22

RETURNS INCREASE

Auckland Customs Figures

By Telegraph.—Press Association.

Auckland, December 1.

Further improvement on the high figures of October is shown in Customs duties collected at Auckland last month, the total being £213,509. This is slightly more than the October return of £211,373, which was the greatest amount collected in one month since August, 1930, when the total was £228,710. In November, 1932, Customs collections totalled only £168,970.

For the ten months of the present year a total of £2,030,247 was collected in Customs duties, compared with £1,795,101 iu the same period of 1932, an increase of £235,146. Sales tax collected last month amounted to £50,731, the total since the imposition of the tax being £368,228. Motor spirit and tire duties yielded £45,788, compared with £43,430 in November, 1932. The total for eleven months i/, £3,449,046, against £4,387,164 in the corresponding period of last year. Excise collected on beer for November amounted to £13,438, compared with £13,659 in November, 1932. For the 11 months, £116,997 was collected, as against £112,217 to the end of November last year. .