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Table No. 10. PROPERTY ASSESSMENT. Classification of Taxpayers by Occupation.

Table No. 11. Statement of Tax collected in each Financial Year, Total Expenditure, and Expenditure for each £100 of Tax collected.

Designation. Number. Amount. Tax. Professional: Clergymen, Lawyers, Doctors, Authors, Editors, Engineers, Surveyors, and Architects Civil Servants, Officers of Local Bodies, Teachers, &c. Retired Professional Men, Merchants, and others ... Merchants, Importers, Warehousemen, Con- I -retractors, &c. ... ... ... j^irms ... Ditto ... ... ... ... Persons ... Tradesmen (wholesale and retail), Shopkeepers, Storekeepers, Carriers, &c. Working Storemen, Mechanics, Labourers, Shepherds, Miners, Sailors, &c. Manufacturers, Brewers, Millers, Founders, Saw-millers, Shipbuilders, &c. 3-raziers, Sheep-farmers, Farmers, Dairymen, See..;. Land, Commission, or General Agents, Auctioneers, Accountants, Brokers, Commercial and other Managers, Clerks, Bookkeepers, Master-mariners, &c. ... Widows, Wives' Trustees, Spinsters Dther Trust Estates, and Estates of Deceased Persons, &c... Absentees Companies—Banks (Colonial) ... Banks (Foreign) Life Insurance Loan Land Mercantile Manufacturing Manufacturing and Mercantile Mining (Coal) Mining (Gold) Dhurch Property Corporations and Trusts 1,155 547 342 336 667 3,156 2,242 525 8,611 1,858 3,760 1,492 1,150 3 3 10 36 15 101 58 28 10 113 76 £ 2,802,461 531,897 3,073,887 2,478,246 2,317,951 i 3,533,103 972,787 1,211,135 19,570,492 3,282,025 5,345,641 J 7,748,796 . 6,234,434 1,949,595 1,468,933 ; 2,819,866 I 9,155,202 2,891,722 2,252,090 908,227 1,393,739 359,440 610,819 491,206 £ s. d. 11,676 18 5 2,216 4 9 12,807 17 3 10,326 0 6 9,658 2 7 14,721 5 8 4,053 5 7 5,046 7 11 81,543 14 4 13,675 2 1 22,273 10 1 32,286 13 0 25,976 16 2 8,123 6 3 6,120 11 1 11,749 8 10 38,146 13 6 12,048 16 10 9,383 14 2 3,784 5 7 5,807 4 11 1,497 13 4 2,545 1 7 2,046 13 10 Fire Insurance Companies, £1 10s. per cent, on £443,441 gross premiums 26,294 83,403,694 347,515 7 10 33 6,651 12 2 Totals ... 26,327 354,167 0 0

Year. Tax collected. Rate. Expenditure. Percentage. 1880-81 1881-82 1882-83 1883-84 1884-85 1885-86 1886-87 1887-88 1888-89 1889-90 1890-91 £ s. d. 219,716 1 0 250,974 17 3 157,736 15 3 268,774 0 9 145,379 12 1 326,276 6 0 310,897 2 3 376,576 12 0 373,830 19 4 355,425 15 7 355,000 0 0 d. 1 a 4 | "R" i a 16 i i i i £ s. a. 30,505 15 8 10,283 19 8 21,196 7 8 20,183 6 8 7,363 18 5 24,740 5 4 21,801 17 10 6,937 0 3 21,672 9 3 20,437 9 0 6,500 0 0 £ s. a. 13 17 8 4 1 11 13 8 9 7 10 2 5 13 7 11 7 7 0 2 1 16 10 5 15 11 5 15 0 1 16 7 Totals % I 191,622 9 4 6 2 0* 3,140,588 1 6 Note.—1890-91 estimated.