FURTHER INCREASES

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19134, 1 October 1936, Page 4

FURTHER INCREASES

STATE REVENUE ITEMS GISBORNE COLLECTIONS ALL SECTIONS IMPROVE All three of the main divisions of State, revenue collected through tho Customs Department’s office in Gisborne improved substantially during September, by comparison with the corresponding returns of 1935 Customs duties on importations showed a particularly good increase for the month, and further improved the position of the year in relation to that shown at the end of September 1935. (leer excise duties also showed a marked increase, and sales tax collections, at £l4Ol, were nearly £4OO better than for the corresponding month last year. Details of the monthly collections for the two periods are furnished in the following tables: — CUSTOMS REVENUE 1936 1935

Total ... 31,862 8 2 27,274 18 0 BEER EXCISE PAYMENTS 1936 1935 £sd £ s d

Total ...10,417 16 2 7,592 2 9 SALES TAX RECEIPTS 1936 1935

LYTTELTON RETURNS RISE IN RECEIPTS (Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. Customs returns for the month of ■September in Christchurch were as follows:

PORT OF DUNEDIN SUBSTANTIAL INCREASE (Per Press Association.) DUNEDIN, this day. Duo principally to the arrival during I lie month of an unusually large number of overseas vessels, the .1 mount of customs revenue collected during September at the port of Dunedin is the largest, since August of J 934, and comparison with tho figures for (September of 1935 show an increase of no less than £5970. The returns for the half-year just ended also show a considerable increase when compared with those for the corresponding period of last year, the collections for the first six months of the current financial year amounting to £353,204, and those for the first half of the last 12-monthly period to £308,022. The following figures give a comparison of the revenue derived m September of the present year with that for the corresponding month of

The following are the figures for the first six months of the current financial vear, together with those for the Aprii-September period of last year: Apl.-Scp. Apl.-Sept, I<)3(* 1935

£ s d £ s d .January ... 3,149 9 6 3,025 19 8 Fobruary 3.422 4 4 2,799 16 7 March 4^887 5 4 3.412 13 5 April 3.180 4 10 l’979 4 1 .May 3.450 1 2 3.154 12 11 June 2.904 19 0 2,329 19 6 July 4.024 3 1 3.551 5 9 August 3.076 0 0 4,200 1 10 September 3.768 0 11 2,821 18 0

January ... 1,441 7 6 977 7 4 February ... 938 7 6 1.233 12 6 March ' ... 1.561 18 2 947 7 3 April '883 12 6 1,106 16 8 May 963 13 6 '712 15 3 June 1.179 8 6 606 19 11 July 1,185 10 11 722 12 8 August 1,062 15 1 553 7 5 September 1,201 2 6 731 3 9

£ s d £ s d January ... 1,733 16 8 1.649 18 11 February ... 1.276 18 8 1.332 19 7 .March 1.259 19 3 1.197 7 2 April 1.001 12 11 965 2 5 Mnv 1.130 8 7 1.005 18 0 .June 1,078 2 11 1.157 14 6 .7 111 V 1.154 3 9 984 4 0 August 1.320 16 7 1,177 16 9 September 1,401 18 11 1,084 17 7 Total 11,357 18 3 10,548 19 7

, Sept. Sept. 1936 1035 Customs .. £04,1128 £7(5,013 Beer dutv £10,834 £6,080 yules tax £33,91(5 £25,928 Petrol dutv £11(5,352 £90,500 Tv re duty £007 £1,2(51 l 1 'or the six months of the financial your the Jigures were:— Apl.-Scp. Apl.-Scp. 103(5 1935 Ousto ms £525,283 £130,437 Beer dutv £17.508 £41,571 Sa les tax £101,277 £156,596 Petrol duty £11(5,352 £90,500 Tyre duty £5,59.3 £6,121

1 Olif): — Sept. 1935 Sept. 193(3 Customs duty .. Beer duty £64,655 £22,067 '£58,682 £24,798 Sales tax £23,684 £19,053 Petrol tax, fid. gl. £12,357 £10,983 Tyre tax Gold duty £477 £933 £865 £1,436

Customs duty .. £353,204 £308,022 Boor duly Sales tax Pot rol tax £125,655 £140,428 £77,343 £106,568 £120,038 £67,186 Tyre tax Gold duty £4,004: £10,984 4,476 £10,536