New Zealand Gazette – 1913 – No. 4

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✨ Customs and Excise Duties

JAN. 23.

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

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RETURN showing the CUSTOMS and EXCISE DUTIES collected at the several Ports of New Zealand during the Quarter ended 31st December, 1912—continued.

COMPARATIVE RETURN of Customs Duties for the Years 1912 and 1911.

Year 1912	21	1371	59000	48450	12339	82430	846927	112822	13337	37098	13234	32469	7074	482554	55377	6874	454874	105302	74175	3335719	..
Year 1911	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	24	959	51797	47386	6799	73840	825465	106385	13026	35376	13183	33439	7792	468644	51788	7377	438534	99310	63968	3165655	..

Minus quantity.

EXCISE DUTIES.

Heads of Revenue.	Rates of Duty.	Auckland.	Wellington.	Christchurch.	Dunedin.	Other Ports.	Totals.	Corresponding Quarter, 1911.
		£	£	£	£	£	Quantities.	Revenue.
Beer	3d. per gallon	8,921	3,772	5,237	10,532	7,862	2,909,920 gal.	£36,374
Tobacco	4 per lb.	..	194	..	..	..	3,960 lb.	198
Cigars and Snuff	1s. 6d. "	85	..	..	..	..	1,133 "	85
Cigarettes, made by hand	1s. 6d. "	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
" manufactured by machinery	2s. 6d. "	..	..	54	303	..	..	..
Medicinal Preparations containing more than 50 per cent. of proof spirit	9d. "	150	17	..	..	..	13,973 lb.	524
Culinary and Flavouring Essences	12s. per gallon	256	41	25	405	29	1,260 gal.	756
Perfumed Spirits	20s. "	204	..	..	25	..	229 "	229
Toilet Preparations	12s. "	12	..	..	..	..	20 "	12
"	6s. "	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Totals	..	9,632	4,024	5,366	11,265	7,891	..	38,178
Corresponding Quarter, 1911	..	8,726	4,039	5,245	10,369	7,117	..	..
		..	..	..	..	..	..	35,496

COMPARATIVE RETURN OF EXCISE DUTIES FOR THE YEARS 1912 AND 1911.

Year 1912	32,178	14,252	18,408	38,608	25,447	128,893	..	125,573
Year 1911	29,947	14,577	18,817	37,563	24,669	..	..	..

Department of Trade and Customs, Wellington, 20th January, 1913.

W. B. MONTGOMERY, Secretary of Customs.

VUW Te Waharoa — NZ Gazette 1913, No 4

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💰 Customs and Excise Duties Collected During the Quarter Ended 31st December, 1912 (continued from previous page)

Domain💰 Finance & Revenue
Dated20 January 1913
KeywordsCustoms, Excise, Duties, Revenue, Statistics, Quarterly Return, Comparative Return
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W. B. Montgomery, Secretary of Customs

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