CUSTOMS RETURNS
AUCKLAND REVENUE Customs revenue collected in Auckland during May shows an all-round decrease from the April figures, but this is merely a seasonal tendency. Receipts under all headings are very substantially higher than those for the same month last year, and conform to the new levels of the import trade and industrial product on in the Dominion. Customs receipts amounted to £244,413, compared with £232,250 tor May, 1936, and the respective totals, including motor spirit and tyre duties, were £305.380 and £*59,012. Esciso • u beer produced £14.324, and sales c-tv receipts were £85.855. compared with £68.921 a year ago. For the first five months of 1337 the J ordinary customs revenue lota.led J*. £1.71,0.352, compared with £1.607.6'-.2. For the same period last year the figures, including motor spirit and tvre duties, were £1,715,352 and £1.607.622 respectively.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19340, 2 June 1937, Page 14
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