MONTHLY STATISTICS
DUNEDIN RETURNS
(Per Press Association.) DUNEDIN, May 31. Customs returns for May amount to £63,099 Os 7d, as compared with £61,223 4s Id for the corresponding month of last year. Beer duty for the months is £17,592 14s 7d, as against £21,016 Is lid for May of last year. Motor spirit tax for this month totals £3057 Is Bd, and the tyre tax comes to £1768 ss. Following are the vital statistics for the month ended to-day (the figures for the corresponding period of last year being given in parentheses): —Births 123 (129); marriages 48 (52); deaths 64 (97). For the five months ended May 31, the figures were:— Births 571 (669); marriages 288 (312); deaths 328 (380).
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Greymouth Evening Star, 1 June 1928, Page 11
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