NECK AND NECK
AUCKLAND AND WELLINGTON
CUSTOMS REVENUE RETURNS.
The Customs revenues received this year at Wellington, and Auckland respectively are running remarkably close. For the eight months of 1926, onded olsfc August, Wellington collected £1,633,384 and Auckland £1,628,----844, a difference of only £ 4540 in favour of Wellington. For the same eight months o.f 1923, the Customs revenue collected at. Wellington was £1,598,985, at Auckland £1,587,912, a difference in favour of Wellington of £11,076.■ , Again, for the whole financial year, 1925-26, there was only a difference of £.15,485 in two collections each over 2J millions. The figures for 1925-26 were: Wellington £2,576,281, Auckland £2,560,706. But it was not so in the financial year 1924-25, when the Northern city led by nearly £90,000 —Auckland £2,----324,369, Wellington £2,235,011. During the month of August just closed, Wellington collected £235,654 16s 2d Customs revenue, and £4271 10s 2d beer duty. In August of test year the figures were £229,641 10s lOd and £3995 11s 8d respectively. During August, Auckland's collection was £243,711, the largest monthly collection at that port this year.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 54, 1 September 1926, Page 9
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177NECK AND NECK Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 54, 1 September 1926, Page 9
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