WHAT BRITONS PAY.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4531, 23 February 1923, Page 2

WHAT BRITONS PAY.

TAXES AND SAVINGS LESS CRIME. The 67th number of the Statistical Abstiact for the United Kingdom contains remarkable figures indicating the extent of the burdens shouldered by the taxpayers'. Thus the Civil Service estimates are shown to havte risen from £29,118,00 in 1906 to £460,216,000 in 1920.' The taxation levied rose in the same period fiom £130,0’52,000 to £1,031,725,000, pr increased nearly eightfold. The amount due to depositors at the Post Office Savings Bank rose from £155,996,000 in 1906 to £266,508,009 in 1920. Government Securities bought through the Post Office and standing to the credit, of holders rose from £18,896,000 tp £204,282,000. ' The number of letters per head delivered each year rose from 64' in 1906 to 74 in 1920. The effect of high postcard charges' is clearly indicated. From 880,000,000 in 1914 the postcards delivered dropped to ■577,0’00',000 in 1920. ; NO “CRIME WAVE.” The theory of a “crime v)-ave” after the war is not upheld by the dispassionate figures. The number of convictions for indictable Offences in England fell from 33,016 in 1908 to 28,142 in 1920, a marked decrease; in Scotland tine fall was /from 18,616 to 15,559. The immigration figures will cause some uneasiness. They; show that between 1917 and 1920, 1(17,000 aliens arrived and only left.