CUSTOMS REVENUE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22098, 2 May 1935, Page 7

CUSTOMS REVENUE

WELLINGTON PROCEEDS FURTHER LARGE INCREASE . [BY TELTIGItAPH —-PRESS ASSOCIATION*] « WELLINGTON, Wednesday A further substantial increase in customs revenue is recorded for the month over the figures for April, 1934. Sales tax also shows a big increase, the total for April bsing the highest for any individual month this year. Net customs revenue collected at Wellington in April totalled £207,431, against £181,569 for April, 1934. For the'*" four months of 1935 the revenue is £829,62.';1, compared with £709,807 for the corresponding period of 1934, ; The duty collected op motor spirit this month totalled £60!,5€ 6, as against. £60,757 for April, 1931. The petrol figures for the four month s' periods'are £240,381 and £248,252 respectively. The collection oi tyre tax yielded £1769, compared with £1520 in April, 1934,, For the four months the figures are £7921 and £6045 respectively. r ' The collection of sales, tax in April totalled £/"1,937, compared with £55.336 in April, 1934. The total for lour months of £261,335 shows an increase of £47,730 over last year's total.* ' Beer excise collections for April totalled £5234, compared with £4793 for April, 1934. For the period .the figures are £18,926 and £18,41.5 respectively.

EtTQYAHCY AT DHRISTCHTJKGH

INCREASE OVER WIDE RANGE

[BY TELEGRAPH —I'II,ESS association] CHRISTCJIURCH. Wednesday, The continued buoyancy of' trade is indicated in the returns of the Customs Department at Ch'ristchiirch for last month. As in the returns for the other months of this year, the figures show increased revenue from 'imports in nearly all sections, and i considerable increase again in the sales tax collections. The figures are as follows, those for April, 1934, being in parentheses:— Net customs, £7l-285 (.-61,621); sales tax, £25,046 (£2i!,582); beer, £B3IO (£6954); petrol tax, £19,737 o (£16,571); tyre duty, £1147 (£936).".

MINING CLAIM

OBJECTION RULED OUT

THAMES WARDEN'S; DECISION

[by telegraph—owx /correspondent] THAMES, Wednesday

In the: Thames Warden's Court today the warden, Mr. F. H. Levien, S.M., gave his reserved decision in the. mining application of Werner Langguth, of Auckland, for the Occidental special quartz claim, to which Herman R. Ilabe objected on the ground that the land applied for overlapped his claim.

Holding that the objection could not be sustained, the —wa:rden said!that Rabe's application, nmde in : tained a description of land which was " as vague as could be.'' The plan was pencil drawn And gave little indication, as to where the area was. When Rabe took up this land 1© was not the possessor of a special miner's right,, as was required for native ceded laild, nor did he take out such licence within the 12 months allowed to do so. Langguth's application would be grant<3, said the warden. Furthermore, an order would be made that the licence should be .cancelled for such parts of land mentioned in the objection as held by the objector, and stated to be overlapped by Langguth's application. GHEE BUTTER MARKET REQUIREMENTS IN INDIA PROBLEMS FOR DOMINION [BY TEfJICKAPH —OWX CORRESPONDENT] PALMERSTOfT NORTH, Wednesday Although much had been made of the possibilities of exploiting the Indian market with g'aee, or clarified butter, manufactured in New Zealand, there were very many difficulties in the way, stated Mr. C. E. Barnicoat, of the staff of the Dairy Research Institute, in the course oi: an address to factory managers at Massey College today.

Mr. jßurnicoat said there was an enormous potential consumption of ghee in the East, but. to secure a payable price, Now Zealand, if ifc exported ghee, would have to place a product of the finest quality on a limited market. Cheap vegetable gheen were made in India, au well as those from camel, sheep arid buffalo .fats. Indian ghee fat was almost colourless, while the New Zealand product, with its high vitamin content, was yellowish. - This colour did not appeal to tha Indian. It looked as if the Dominion's product for that market would have to be bleached. Bleaching agents, however, also deodorants, removed both the impurities and the flavours, too. The difficulty lay in securing a colon r without! impairing the quality.