DUNEDIN WELL BEHIND
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
DUNEDIN, This Day,
The aggregate revenue collected by the Customs office during the month ended today shows a decrease compared with the returns for the corresponding month of last year, and a similar position is revealed in the figures for the half-year compared with those for the first six months of the last financial year. The following are the returns for the month compared with the figures for September, 1937:—Customs duty, £76,476 (£83,653); beer duty, £25,664 (£25,111); sales tax, £26,997 (£24;945); petrol tax, £16,249 (£15,699); gold tax, £969 (£777).
The figures for the half-year to-; gether with those for the first half of tlie last financial year are as follows: — Customs duty, £379,198 (£424,649); beer duty, £141,946 (£139,540); sales tax, £150,883 (£157,572); petrol tax, £150,883 (£87,531); gold tax, £10,818 (£11,378); tyre tax, £4360 (£5816).
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 80, 1 October 1938, Page 21
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