The Star. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15. THE COLONIAL REVENUE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7363, 15 January 1902, Page 2

The Star.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15. THE COLONIAL RE VENUE.

Dehvored every eveuintf by 6 o'clock iv Hawern, Mauaia, Normauby, Okaiawa, EHhnm, Muiigatoki, Kapon<;a, Awatuna, Opunalie, Otakelio, Mumitalii, Altou, Hurleyville, Patea and Waverley.

The announcement of the Premier that the revenue is keeping up well is in itself satisfactory, and appears to be supported by the official figures. These show that for the nine expired months of the financial year the cus'oms revenue was £1 606,353, as compared with £1,571,268 in the corresponding period of last year ; and that railways receipts similarly increased from £1,197,804 to J61.301.779, land tax from £240,126 to £296,509, and so od. We do not quite know what the Premier means by his allusion to the reduction of taxation. Probably it is a reporter's error. But, letting that pass, it is satisfactory to know that so far as the revenue goes it indicates confidence, though perhaps it is as well to give a reminder, unnecessary though it may bo to many people, that revenue figures do not constitute a case There is the expenditure side of the account to be considered, and more important still is the state of the markets for our produce, on which, after all, everything else eventually rests.