DUNEDIN FIGURES

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 1, 1 July 1939, Page 11

DUNEDIN FIGURES

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) . ,

DUNEDIN, June- 30. There was an appreciable increase ih Customs and other revenue collected in Dunedin and at the Port of Otago during the last mbnth, cottlpared with that for the same month

Bourns for the last quar*vifez ;snd .the last -six, months also show-■i:-;'&k increases over' those lor the corresisondlng periods of 1038; Customs re- /, s ; ttims during June amounted to an increaieot more than £2200 on those of : Ju^e,'ldSjß. For tile first quarter of 'fy'tr'&y&bi-, receipts in this section show--!e4:an increase b£ more than £9000; epin^ared with the April-June period ; --last year. ..-.. :: .•■■■ •• ■•' • ■ ' ■'■'■ : ;.i June figures: Customs duly, 1939, ri; £54,66^ 1938, £56,792; beer duty, - £20,431, £22,391; sales tax,. £28,240, ,';-•; £24,400; petrdl tax, £ 18,728, £ 15,412; •J^ gold tax> £1558, £1322; tyre tax, £287, > •£646;- Wool tajCi £121, £136; totals* i» £123,846. ; Returns for the quaften-rCustpms . duty, 1939, £180,247, 1938, £171,149; beer duty, *£75>257V ,£75,790; petrol tax, £52,295,., £48,980; sales tax, £82,476, £74,388; tyre tax, £2028, £2088; gold tax, £4420/ £5723; %>ol tax, £1232, £870; totals, £398i280» £383,074. .;. . RetUrrts fpr - hal£-year:-^-Customs duty, 1939, £368,988,., 1938, £380,712; beefc duty,' £ 161,502; £ 162;250; sales ■.'i tax, £162^074 £151,263; petrol tax, £105,697, £99,996; gbld tax, £9502, £10,395; tyre tax, £5173, £3633; wool tax, £2570, £2428; totals, £820,343, £817,387. ■■;