Marlborough Provincial Gazette – 1862 – No. 11

Page 51

✨ Customs Revenue Statement

STATEMENT of all Moneys received STEPHEN CARKEEK, Esquire, Collector of Customs for the Province of Wellington, New Zealand, from the first to the thirty-first day of May, 1861, both days inclusive.

HEAD OF RECEIPT.	TOTAL.
Spirits ... 2137 6-32 Gallons at 9s. ...	£961 14 11
Tobacco ... 2628 lbs. at 1s. 6d. ...	197 2 0
Cigars and Snuff ... 336 lbs. at 3s. ...	50 8 0
Wine ... 563 27-32 Gallons at 3s. ...	84 11 6
Ale and Beer ... 409 Gallons at 1s. ...	20 9 0
Do. ... 1488 Gallons at 6d. ...	37 4 0
Coffee, Cocoa, Chicory, and Chocolate 734 lbs. at 3d. ...	9 3 6
Sugar, Raw, Refined, and Molasses 43976 lbs. at 1d. ...	183 4 8
Tea ... 7245 lbs. at 4d. ...	120 15 0
Gunpowder ... Nil. ...	...
Measurement Duties ... 404 9-12ft. at 4s. per cubic foot ...	80 19 0
Fire Arms ... Nil. ...	...
Goods ... 65 46-112cwt. at 3s. per cwt. ...	9 16 3

Total amount of duties for Wellington ...	1755 7 10
Remittance from Wanganui ...	352 4 5
Total amount of Duties ...	£2107 12 8

SETTLEMENT OF THE FOREGOING COLLECTIONS.

1861	Expenses of Collection ... ... ... ... ... ... ...	£200 17 0
May 6	By Payment to Sub-Treasurer, General Government ...	395 6 5
" 13	do. ... do. ... do. ... do. ...	551 8 1
" 20	do. ... do. ... do. ... do. ...	328 15 1
" 31	do. ... do. ... do. ... do. ...	631 5 8
	Total as above ...	£2107 12 3

I, STEPHEN CARKEEK, do solemnly and sincerely declare that the foregoing is a true and faithful statement of my account as Collector of Customs for the period herein mentioned, and that the sum of £2107 12s. 3d. Sterling, paid by me as above, is the whole amount so received by me from the first to the thirty-first day of May, 1861, both days inclusive, and I do make this solemn declaration, conscientiously believing the same to be true.

STEPHEN CARKEEK.
Collector.

Declared before me this fourth day of June, 1861.

GEORGE HUNTER, J. P.

VUW Te Waharoa — Marlborough Provincial Gazette 1862, No 11

The Marlborough Provincial Council used two modest buildings in Blenheim (depicted) as their council chambers.

✨ LLM interpretation of page content

💰 Statement of Customs Revenue for May 1861

Domain💰 Finance & Revenue
Dated4 June 1861
KeywordsCustoms, Revenue, Duties, Wellington, Wanganui
👱🏽 Names

Stephen Carkek (Esquire), Collector of Customs for Wellington

👩‍💼 Officials

STEPHEN CARKEEK, Collector
GEORGE HUNTER, J. P.

As the Gazette has been published for more than 185 years, copyright status depends on the publication date of each issue:

1840–1925 (Public Domain): Issues of the New Zealand Gazette and Provincial Gazettes from this period are in the public domain, as the term of Crown copyright (100 years) has expired. Mechanical reproductions (e.g., scanned PDFs) of these public domain documents do not attract new copyright.
1926–1999 (Crown Copyright): Issues from this period remain subject to Crown copyright. Usage of these issues in this project is "Fair Dealing" for research purposes and consistent with the spirit of the open-access principles championed by NZGOAL, ie, "The default licensing position under ... NZGOAL is the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence ... [t]o the greatest extent possible, agencies should apply this licence to copyright material on their websites"
2000–Present (CC-BY 3.0 NZ): Gazette issues published on gazette.govt.nz are Crown copyright but are explicitly licensed by the Department of Internal Affairs under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand licence (CC-BY 3.0 NZ). This project redistributes this content in accordance with those terms.

Nothing in this project is intended to infringe copyright, trademark law or personal privacy. Please contact me immediately if you have any concerns.

Third-Party Content

Where third-party content (e.g., notices submitted by external organisations) is identified within the Gazette, users should satisfy themselves regarding the copyright status of that specific content, as it may be subject to different ownership terms than the Gazette itself.

Sources and Attribution

NZ Gazette Sources

The primary sources for the issues of the NZ Gazette indexed by this project are:

New Zealand Gazette Archive, provided by Victoria University Library, copyright 2008 LexisNexis NZ Limited, Crown Copyright of New Zealand Gazette Office
- Issues from 1841-2008, including the New Munster, New Ulster, and Provincial Gazettes
New Zealand Gazettes by New Zealand Legal Information Institute (note: "NZLII is not the copyright owner in the source documents published on NZLII")
- Issues from 1913-1999
Gazette.govt.nz, Crown copyright / licensed by the Department of Internal Affairs under CC-BY 3.0 NZ
- Issues from 2000-2017

Additional Sources

Wellington City Recollect have made available a comprehensive and excellent-quality scan of the Wellington Provincial Gazette which was used to fill in a number of issues missing from Victoria University's Gazette Archive; in particular, all 1856 issues, issues 22-34 for 1864 and issues 9-19 for 1870.
27 issues of The New Zealand Advertiser and Bay of Islands Gazette (1840) were sourced from Papers Past (public domain).
Gazette Extraordinary No. 1 (1840), held at the Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. Imaged by Luke Howison at the National Library reading rooms; PDF released into the public domain.

PDF Icon

The PDF PDF Icon was made by Good Ware, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Masthead

The logo in the header is an edited version of “Winning Coat of Arms Competition Entry, 1908” by Archives New Zealand, CC BY 2.0 (found via Wikipedia).

Who made this?

I'm Luke Howison, a freelance web developer with an interest in genealogy. I have created several websites for genealogical research, such as NZ Ancestor Search Helper.

New Zealand Gazette Index