CUSTOMS RECEIPTS
NEW ZEALAND'S RECORD
OVER FIVE MILLION IN ONE YEAR
(BT TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.)
AUCKLAND, 6th April,
The amount received by the Government in Customs revenue, including excise duties, during the financial year ended 31st March, was a record total, for the first time exceeding £5,000,000. The Minister for Customs (Sir William Herries), who supplied this information, stated that the exact amount was £5,185,368, or over a. million more than the total of the previous year.
Tho ordinary Customs revenue was £4,829,974, or £429,974 more than the official estimate of £4,400,000.
The previous year's total was £3,830, 681, the increase being thus nearly a mil lion.
The excise beer duty collected during the year totalled £355,378, and the estimate was £270,000, or £85,378 less than .the sum received. The amount of excise beer duty received during the pre-, vious year was £273,334, or £82,044 less thau the past year's sum.
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Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 82, 7 April 1920, Page 8
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150CUSTOMS RECEIPTS Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 82, 7 April 1920, Page 8
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