Commercial CUSTOMS RETURNS FOR QUARTER

Southland Times, Issue 25483, 2 October 1944, Page 2

Commercial CUSTOMS RETURNS FOR QUARTER

Decrease In Beer Duty The amount of Customs and other revenue collected by the Customs Department in Invercargill for the quarter ended September 30 showed an increase in all items, with the exception of beer, over the corresponding period of last year. The beer decrease was £541. For September the revenue from beer showed a decrease of £346, all the other items showing increases. The figures are as follows:—

THE RIALTO William Todd and Co. Ltd. report as follows for the week ended Saturday:— Pigs.—Small weaners, £1 to £l/5/-; wellgrown, £l/8/- to £2/3/-; empty sow, £1 19/-; stores. £2 to £2/2/-; porker, £3. Poultry.—W.L. hens, 3/6 to 5/9; cockerels, 5/- to 5/9; Apstralorp hens, 6/3 to 6/9; cockerels. 7/- to 7/3; 1.8. ducks, 3/- to 4/-; Muscovies, 6/6 to 8/9. Bacon Pigs.—Prime bacon weights, 1201 b to 1801 b, B‘/ 2 d per lb delivered to abattoirs. Produce. —Table potatoes, King Edwards, £ll/10/- a ton; chaff, £6/10/- to £7; cow chaff, 4/- to 5/- a sack; oats, £l/1/-; wheat, £l/2/-; to £l/5/-; meat meal, 11/-; poultry pellets, 12/6; Exsalick stock food, 17/6; rock salt, 14/6; coarse salt. 12/-; Moose meal, £l/6/-; Moose nuts, £l/5/-; Meadow’s chicken mash, £l/4/-; chick feed, 19/6; oyster shell grit, 6/- per cwt. Miscellaneous.—Pumice boilers, £lO/15/-; pumice tashtubs, £3/5/-; sashes, 19/6; wheelbarrows, £2/15/-; cement, 7/10; timber, £1 5/6 to £l/10/-; stakes, £3/15/-; droppers, £l/10/-; horse covers, £3; cow covers, 15/-. Vegetables.—Cabbage, 5/- to 5/6; cauliflowers, 4/6 a dozen; carrots, parsnips and beetroot, Id to l‘/ad per lb; leeks, 4d a bundle; rhubarb, 6d per lb. Grass Seeds.—White clover, 1/6 to 2/6; Montgomery, 2/9; dogstail, 1/3; timothy, 1/6; cocksfoot, 3/-; lotus major, 2/6; ryegrass, 7/6 a bushel; mixture of ryegrass, clover and cocksfoot, 3lid per lb.

QUARTER Customs Beer 1944 £ 37,509 720 1943 £ 27,881 1,261 Sales Tax 11,116 10,025 War ExpensesSales Tax 23,137 20,606 Other 8,051 6,216 TOTALS £80,533 £65,989 MONTH 1944 1943 £ £ Customs 13,510 9,854 Beer 172518 Sales Tax 4,011 3,064 War Expenses— Sales Tax 8,473 6,285 Other 2,340 1,894 TOTALS £28,506 £21,615