BOMINION REVENUE.
TEN .MONTHS' INCREASE. Tho Prime Minister, Sir Joseph' Ward', makes public tho revenue figures for tho ten moutlis of (he present financial year ended January 31. This shows an increase of .£732,752 compared with the first ten months of the previous year. Tho figures are as follow: — 1912 1911 Inc. £ £ £ Customs ....... 2,G78,!)G9 2,400,428 218,541 Stumps (Stamp Department) 790,480 043,953 146,527 Stamps (Postal nndTcloxraiih) 055,358 011,797 4(1,501 Postal and'J'oic.Brapli cash receipts 191,250 172,007 18.G13 La ml and Income Tax ... 675,5.12 G52,t30 23,008 Doer iliity ... 97,735 95,(1(18 2,G07 Railways, 2,922,522 2,7(19,035 213,487 Ifajiistrntioh and ■ other fees ... 84,033 G2.879 21,751 Marine 39,206 :)G,735 2,471 Misdcllanfrous 233,944. 201,818 32.126 Territorial ... 180,437 187,558 12,879 8,550,066 7,817,314 732,752 Coilimeiitiiig on the figures Sir Joseph Ward suid: —"When we take IJio twelve , nmnths ciulinj,' Jainiary 31 the iiicroaws upon the lM'pvioiis period ajnouiiks to .€929,231. Tlio positioii of tho revenue is highly satisfacljtiry. It indicates buoyancy all round, and shows that my Budßet forecast was on the safo >side. Tho results in every branch of the revenue clearly indicite that trade thrbußhont the Dominion has lwli very active, otherwise such a tine positioii could not jwssibly have lloeii attained. It Ought; , to help to reassure those who arc sometimes disposoo , to take a pessimistic view."
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1357, 7 February 1912, Page 4
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210BOMINION REVENUE. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1357, 7 February 1912, Page 4
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