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TABLE No. 9. TABLES RELATING TO THE INCIDENCE OF TAXATION. Table showing the Numbers and Social Condition of the Population of the Industrial Class, the Intermediate Class, and the Property-Tax-paying Class.

Table showing the Amount of Taxation Paid by the different classes of Population arising from Customs Duties, Stamp Duties, and Property-Tax, but exclusive of Duties on Wine, Spirits, Beer, and Tobacco, and Excise Duty on Colonial Beer.

Table showing the Taxation as above paid per Head by the different classes of Population.

Condition. Industrial. Class. Intermediate Class. Property-Tax-paying Class.* Total Census Population. Married men ... Married women Widowers Widowa Children under 18 Single 48,651 48,347 3.2'j6 4,844 JSS^6 52,242 3'2,436 ",903 889 13.234 •3.I.5 2 9°3 i.7S2 43.39° 23,829 U.37 6 u>3°5 765 700 35.053 9,246 73.261 72,804 4,964 7,296 233.499 85.317 Domestic servants Prisoners, paupers ".903 889 Totals 325,228 96,260 68,445 489.933 * Taxpayers, 22,087.

Amount 0: Taxation-. Class. Population. Customs. Stamps. Property. Total. Industrial ,., Servants Intermediate Property-Tax paying i'.9°3 96,260 68,445 £ 269,752 10,311 182,545 129,798 £ 52,421 £ 257,600 £ 269,751 10,311 256,272 4.39>Si9

Kate pe: Head op lXATIOW. Class. Population. Customs. Stamps. Property. Total. Averaged on whole Class. Industrial, — Members of families Single men Single women Servants Intermediate* Property-Tax-paying* 259,890 49,355 3.191 11,903 96,260 68,445 £ s. d. 0 16 6'i 1 o 9- i o 19 r s 0 17 3-9 1 17 ii'i 1 17 ii-i £ s. d. £ s. d. £ a. d. 0 16 6'1 1 o 9' 1 o 19 1-5 o 17 3'9 2 13 2-9 6 8 6'2 b. d. 17 3 ° lB 3"8 ° 15 3'8 3 '5 3'3 * The duties on groceries oonsum )f taxes on these two classes. Note.—The Maoris haye been a! led by servants i and prisoner! s, and on drapi iry by prisoner ■s, are included in the amouni ssumed to pay Customs duty ■ at the rate oi 2s. 6d, per liei ad, the amount being £5,512,