DOMINION REVENUE.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume IV, Issue 1163, 2 November 1917, Page 1 (Supplement)

DOMINION REVENUE.

■ ! FIGURES FOR SEPTEMBER QUARTER. Pre.*)/ Association. WELLINGTON, November 1. A statement of receipts and expenditure of the Consolidated Fund for the September quarter, which appears in the "Gazette," indicates a falling-off in revenue of a little under £200,000, while the expenditure under permanent and annual appropriations has decreased bv £187,.'180. A special sum of £128,362 for the purchase of wheat appears in the expenditure for the 1017 quarter. With this added the total expenditure is some £60,000 below that of the cor- . responding quarter of 1916. The principal items of revenue of the 1916 and ! 1917 quarters respectively are:— 191 G. tftir. £ £ Customs 1,045.983 844,490 Stamp and death duties 443,405 433,093 Post mill Telegraphs .. 303,979 415,300 Beer duty 42,479 49,935 Railways 1,102,842 1,003,247 The total ordinary revenue for the quarter amounts to £2,986,234, against £3,177,029 last year. The total expenditure under permanent and annual appropriations was £3,101,589, against £3,288,977. Interest and sinking fund shows an increase from £463,405 to £508,453, and war pensions an increase from £39,237 to £105,383. A statement of receipts ami expenditure under the war expenses account shows that a sum of £10,449.000, loan moneys, was received during the quarter. The expenditure for war purposes was £2,914,785, against £3,446,464 for _ the corresponding quarter of 1916. The Minister of Customs advises that i the amount of Customs revenue collect- " ed in October was £277,956, and excise and beer duty £23,552. The figures for October, 1916, were £334,334 and £15,710 respectively.