CUSTOMS RETURNS.
WELLINGTON PUTS UP A RECORD
Per- Prmss Association. j Wellington, last night. j The Customs revenue for the port, j which has been steadily increasing for some years past, and whioh may be taken as an indication of the growing trade of ! Wellington, has placed the local offisa in the position of being able to declare a reoord quarter for tbo colony and a record j total for Wellington for the financial year ~j which onded yesterday. The lo‘al for the i quarter ot Wellington is £201,049 17s lid, j as against £176,899 11s lOd for the cor- * responding quarter of 1905. The pro- ■ vious record was £196,029 12s lOd, which , figures ate shown for the third quflrig£__of last year. The figures for the financial j year ending Saturday total £705,642 163 lOd, the amounts collected during the j previous five years, for each year ending ", hist March, being as followsl9ol, £502,590 5s 2d ; 1902, £500,918 5s 8d ; —ft 1903, £560,968 15s 9d; 1904, £656,778 «| 17s; 1905, £666.369 Ha lOd; 1906, £705,642 163 lOd. -g«
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1713, 2 April 1906, Page 2
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177CUSTOMS RETURNS. Gisborne Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1713, 2 April 1906, Page 2
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