WELLINGTON FIGURES

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 127, 1 June 1938, Page 4

WELLINGTON FIGURES

J DROP LAST MONTH TOTALS FOR TWELVE " MONTHS g Net Customs duty collected at Wel« - lington last month showed a decrease _ of £32,938, when compared with; May, 1937, and the sales taxv collected last month also showed a decrease of . £24,994, when compared, with/May of ■ last year. Beer duty. and.-petrol and j tyre taxation showed slight increases. Figures for the two months are:— r May, May, i9BB. : 1937. ■ £ £ i Customs duty ... .• 291,949 ; 324,887 Sales tax 104,9V1 -129,965 - Beer duty ......... . &B£7 , 5,377 ' Petrol at 6d a gallon' 4T.778 > 40,339 Petrol at 4d a gallon - 31,859 ' \ 26,893 ; Tyre duty 1,560 : 1,103 t Net Customs diity so 1 far'-coilefcted this financial year, compared wlth'/the same period of the last' flnancial year, is as follows:— ' ' . , . :7 V 1938.- 1 ' ' 1937. •£ ' £ April .........' 309,155 . . ,286,349 May .......... ' 291,949' ~ , 324J887 f • •.. i Total £601,104" .. .11611,238 j A comparison of the net Customs duty collected at Wellington over "the r last twelve months, compared with tha duty collected over the previous twelve l months, is as follows:— f 1937. " . ; 1936. 'V• £ £ ■ June .289,174 259,261 : July .;... 345,179 289,469 August ....... 359,941 ,289,754 } September .... 385,369 283,061 , October ....... ' 330,663 , 274,365 ■ November .... 365,085 ; 338,390 December ...; 265,968 . 279,685 - 1038. 1937. £. ■ >£ * January 313,183 - *259,078 ■ February- .i, .. 262,071. 242,850 March ......... ,320,649 318,105 j April' ......... - 309,155 286,349 May 291,94 a, 324,887 \ Total ..... £3,838,327 251