CUSTOMS REVENUE

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 261, 2 October 1936, Page 5

CUSTOMS REVENUE

INCREASE AT WELLINGTON. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Sept. 30. Customs revenue collected at Wellington from all sources in September totalled £422,802, an increase of £83,-. 32C over September, 1935. Sales tax for September, a total of £95,1(10, established a new record. The net Customs total for tiie nine months of the current year exceeds the figure lor the corresponding period of 1935 by £449,162. Tho net Customs revenue collected at Wellington in September totalled £283,601, as compared with £227,827 in September, 1935, an increase of £55,774. Duty collected on motor spirit for September totalled £62,134, as compared with £47,162 for September, 1935, an increase of £14,972. Collections on tyre tax in September totalled £1073, as compared with £2lßl in September, 1935, a decrease of £llOB. Collections of sales tax in Septem-

1 her totalled £95,100, as compared with £76,186 in September, 1935, an increase of £18,914. Beer excise collections for September totalled £5751, 1 as compared with £4969 in September, 1935, an increase of £782. IN OTHER CENTRES. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Oct. 1. The Customs revenue collected from all sources for the last nine months totals £3.596,742, an increase of £705,374, or just over 25 per cent, over the figures of £2,891.368 for the same period last year. The total for September is £411,258, ail increase oi £59.345 over September, 1935. Customs duties alone for the nine months, £2.299,536, show an increase of £401,452. or nearly 251 per cent. The September figure, £261,290, is better by £25,632 than that for September last year. Motor spirit and tyre duties together have yielded £504.407. or £163.717 more for the niir months. The sales tax receipts It September, 76,455, break the re cord established in August, when til total was £72,922. Last Septem ber’s figure was £57,934. The increase lor the nine months is £llß.002, oi' a little over 25 per cent. The excise duty on beer has returned £llß,410 since the beginning of the year, an increase of £22.213. The collection tor September was £16,837, against £10.368 in September last year. Dunedin.—Due principally to the arrival during the month of an unusually large number of overseas vessels, the amount of Cus- • toms revenue collected during September at this port of Dunedin is the largest since August. 1934. and a comparison with the figures for September, 1935, shows an increase of no 1 less than £5973. The returns for the half year just ended also show a considerable increase when compared with those for the corresponding period of last year, collections for the first six months of the current financial year amounting to £353,204, and those ior the first half of the last 12 monthly period to £308,022. Christqliurcli.—Customs returns for the month of September in Christchurch were as follow :

1936 1935 £ £ Customs 94.928 76,013 Beer duty 10.834 6,980 Sales tax ... 33,916 25,928 Petrol duty 18,699 14,269 Tyre duty ... 901 1,261 For tlie six months of the financial year the figu •t'S were:— 1936 1935 £ £ Customs 525.286 430.43" Beer duty ... 47.598 41.571 Sales tax ... 191,277 .156.596 Petrol duty 116 352 90.500 Tyre duty ... 5.593 6.121