NEW ZEALAND FINANCES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2079, 17 January 1920, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND FINANCES.

FOR FINE MONTHS. The Minister of Finance (Sir James Allen) made public on Thursday the Treasury figures for Hie nine months of (he financial year ended 31st 'December.

The revenue for tin* month of December was £3,223,248, as against £3,005,682 for December of 1018, an increase of £217,560. There have been increases of approximately £150,000 in Customs, £113,000 in stamp duties, £85,000 in Postal revenue, £30,000 in income tax, and £150,000 in Railway revenue, ami a decrease of £270,000 ki land tax. The revenue for the nine mourns has i.vui £14,:;65,595, as agahsi; £12,010,774 for the corresponding nine uroliths of the previous financial year, so that the increase in revenue is £2,265,821. The biggest increases Ityvc been. ■ tiusi a*.' ~|o ■ t > , ijj duties £8^3,901, £521,517. There is a decrease in beer duty of £114,884. . The total expenditure for the nine months.w<m £1.6,830,/39, as against £13.166,171 in 1918, an increase of £3,664,568. The permanent charges show an increase from £7.000,530 to £8,405,885, but the increase is made up fully by increases in interest and sinking fund of £872,423, and in expenditure under special acts of £534,370. The annual appropriations were £8,424,754, as against £6,165,641.