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COMPARATIVE RETURN for the last THREE FINANCIAL YEARS respectively, showing the CUSTOMS RECEIPTS during each Year, under the several heads of SPIRITS, TOBACCO, TEA, SUGAR, and AD VALOREM, showing the INCREASE or DECREASE under each head for each year; also, WINE, BEER, FRUITS (DRIED), and other FIXED DUTIES.

William Seed, Secretary of Customs.

Customs Department, Wellington, 8th August, 1877.

Price 3d.]

By Authority: Geoege Didsbury, Government Printer, Wellington.—1877.

Articles. Customs Ecccipts for Year ended 30th June, 1875. Customs Receipts for Year ended 30th June, 1876. Customs Receipts for Year ended 30th June, 1877. Financial Year ending 301 h June, 1875, compared ■with Financial Year ending 30th June, 1874. Financial tear ending 30th June, 1870, compared with Financial Y'ear ending 30th June, 1875. Financial Year ending 30lh June, 1877, compare! with Financial Year ending 33th June, 1870. Increase. Decrease. Increase. Decrease. £ 349,812 108,046 68,076 114,299 £ 370,977 121,874 71,188 122,449 £ 367,251 126,726 76,516 120,883 21,165 14,828 3,112 8,150 £ £ £ 3,726 Spieits Tobacco Tea Sugar .22 ■a 1 4,852 5,328 4,434 Ad Valorem, — Apparel and Slops ... JBags and Sacks Blankets Boots, Shoes, and Leather Drapery, Haberdashery, and Soft Goods Carpeting and Druggeting China and Earthenware Drugs and Druggists' Ware Hardware and Ironmongery Stationery Miscellaneous 640,233 686,488 607,376 47,255 11,614 3,720 ... ! 27,368 9,651 3,148 15,590 173,685 5,198 7,745 6,818 20,672 9,247 85,426 23,661 8,077 3,145 12,837 138,450 3,527 6,239 8,607 19,825 9,477 92,791 326,642 16,646 8,162 3,131 17,850 122,826 4,750 7,365 9,499 18,451 8,548 78,474 3,707 1,574, 3 2,753 35,229 1,671 1,506 85 7,015 5,013 " 14 15,030 1.223 1,126 892 1,789 1,374 929 14,317 "847 230 7,365 Total Ad Valorem , 295,702 9,384 47,290 8,339 39,279 364,548 I : Wine Beee (Bottled) „ (Dhaught) Feuits (Deied) Otiier Fixed Duties ... 39,708 21,308 3,227 9,077 145,175 218,495 1,223,276 38,068 20,748 3,171 13,592 136,004 37,093 19,663 3,900 12,760 132,580 4,515 1,040 560 56 1 795 1,575 1,085 832 3,424 6,916 9,171 10,827 795 212,183 20i3,062 1,225,313 1,199,140 4,515 Total Receipts •