DOMINION FINANCES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 230, 8 March 1915, Page 4

DOMINION FINANCES.

AN INCREASE IN REVENUE.

By Telegraph.—Per Press A^n^tion. - Dunedin, Last Night." Hon. Ja3. Allen, Minister of Finance, b:w received a statement of revenue for tile eleven months ended February 28th also the figures for the eleven moritha' of the previous year. -Compared -with the !,^ V orl 1 1-I ear tlle fi K" rcs are: Customß ±52,857,710 (a decrease of £210,760) • £, ' 0M ' M 8 decrease of \ fwj'f, i lOß4ll - telegraph, ■ i.J.,1M1,U74 (an increase of £52,381) • nlJn' . £781 ' 178 (& n increase of ±d0,020); income tax, £514,954 (an increase of £4794); beer tax, £114,735 (an increase of £2(147); railways, £3,568,000 (an increase of £90,718); registration, etc., £82,110 (an increase of £630)marine, £44,753 (a decrease of £2240)' miscellaneous, £352,402 (an increase of £44,030); territorial, £201,584 fan in", crease of £49,320) : v.ment, £78,770 (an increase of £0368) • °r-«v rc^ eipt3 '' f4758 ( a decrease o'. Total increases, £281,541; total n S an e«M« 1014 over e amou nt received in

~T!'2 total revenue - this year was mY antl laat J'«ar £10,681,955. . Ihe Minister states that the decrease m Customs revenue was due to the war, and £174,000 of it-happened in January and February. Ho also expects a decrease tins month. He thinks that some of the falling-off in stamp revenue wilMie made up this month. The in--5® s °, m ra,l »' a .V revenue was very much less than had been ■ expected. During 1 ebruary the decrease was £41,109 fts compared with February of last year. The revenue might, however, recover to some extent in March.