CUSTOMS REVENUE.

Otago Witness, Issue 1003, 18 February 1871, Page 22

CUSTOMS REVENUE.

i From the quarterly returns of the Customs revenue collected in the colony during the year 1870, as published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 12th May, Ist September, and 18th November, 1870, and 26fch January,

1871! we have compiled the subjoined static tics. The following table shows the amonnt oolleofced in eaoh province (Southland, for convenience of compariaon, being treated as a separate province throughout 1870) and the Chatham Islands, during the years 1869 and 1870, together with the inore&Be or decrease in the latter year : — Inoreas? ot Do18G9. 1870. creaseialß7o. Auckland .. ..£209,222 .. £178,915 ..da;. £3C,307 Taranaki .. .. 6 547.. s,BU..dec. 73i; Welling on .. 76,748.. 76,571 ..dec. 17* Hawke'sßay .. 26 353.. 27,101 ..Inc. 749 Marlboroueh .. 5 543.. 7.25» .. lni. 1746 Nelson .. .. 98159.. 94.788 .. dec. 3,371 WVgtian-* .. .. 63,707.. 49,300 ..dec. 14 803 Canteronry .. 91.978.. 95,661 ..inc. 8.688 Ocago .. .. 219.777.. 201 6G6 .. rieo. 18.111 Southland.. .. 25.877.. i873U..in0. 8,359 Chatham Islands.. 101.. 83 .. dec. 18 £823.611 £705,930 . . des. £57.631 The figures for the Chatham Islands for 1870 are not precisely correct, the returns for the last quarter of the year not having been received. The following shows in the same manner the amount of revenue collected in each island during the year :— Dsorea c o 1809. 1870. in 1870. North Island . . .. £318,8<>9 . . £288,393 .. £80,471 South Wand.. .. 004 641.. 477.449.. Chatham Islands „ 101 .. 83 .. 18 £823,511 ... i7«5 930 „£57,581 The following table shows the amount of revenue collected during each quarter of 1870 in Otago and in the entire colony, together with the principal artioleß on whioh it was collected :■—

* This is £34 less than the total as given in the first table above, the explanation being that thesa tables are compiled from the quarterly returns, and the re-tu-B from the Chatham Islands for the first qua T ter not haring beea received in time for publication along with the others, the amount appears only in the general total for the year. As already stated, also, tin return from the Chatham Islands for 6he la a t quarter of the y<>ar has not be n received. It will also be observed that a difference of £3 exists between fche totals for the whole colony la 1869, as given in the first an 4 third tables above. -We are unable to explain this discrepancy, whioh exists between the Seureapublisaed by tho Registrar- General in his annual volume of statistics, and those published in the Gazette of too 26ih January.

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