THE COLONIAL REVENUE.
(per PRESS : ASSOCIATION.) WELLINGTON, This day. | The Customs returns for the financial .yearfending: 31st March ' haye now'been mr.de ■ pdblic? The 'total ‘amount 5 pf revenue, was £1,496,948 2s Id being a deficiency of £3051 on the Colonial estimate of £1,500,000. 'The highest amount collected in any one month was in.September last, when it reached £140,089 14s Bd. The lowest, £109,363 .J3s 3d was collected in April,.Xßß2..Tbe beer duty for lastyear was £62,664 6s 6d being a surplus of £2664 6s 6d over the Treasurer’s estimate; and this being deducted from* the deficiency in the Customs revenue, leaves the total deficiency for the year; from this branch of £387 10s 7d, r which is considered most satisfactory. ; • The Customs’ revenue -for the Colony lor last month was £125,116 12s 3d ; the corresponding .pipnth last’, year; was i£ 140,802 Os ' Sd. : ‘ ‘ The "'returns from the principal places were--: ‘Auckland,; 7 " i£2s-,786 r ; Welling!oh,; : £19,452 ; : Lyttelton £10,883 *, Dunedin,' 1 £34,588. 'TAt each of them a ; deficiency .is shown .6n= the amount returned for 1882.;; .The beer duty for last month was £5645 12s 4d, and for the corresponding month last year £5657 3s Bd.
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Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 1020, 11 April 1883, Page 3
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194THE COLONIAL REVENUE. Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 1020, 11 April 1883, Page 3
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