CUSTOMS RETURNS
A GENERAL INCREASE
All-round increases are apparent in the Customs returns for this month, when compared with February of last year. Figures for February, 1937, with last February's figures in parentheses, are as follows: — Customs duty, £242,850 (£229,933); sales tax, £69,454 (£65,939); • beer duty, £6037 (£4715); petrol at 6d a gallon £41,952 (£36,649); petrol at 4d a gallon, £27,968 (£24,430); tyre duty, £1886 (£1645). The sales tax figures are not complete, as for the purpose of obtaining discount the month is regarded as ending on Monday, by reason of the fact that the last day .of the month is a Sunday.
A proposal that children's health camps should be set up throughout the Dominion as a memorial to the late King George V was endorsed at the biennial conference of the New Zealand branch of the British Medical Association yesterday afternoon,, when a letter on the subject was read from the Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage).- It was decided to reply tn the letter, stating that the association would give.the project every.support,
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 49, 27 February 1937, Page 10
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177CUSTOMS RETURNS Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 49, 27 February 1937, Page 10
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