New Zealand Gazette – 1926 – No. 12

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✨ Customs and Excise Duties Statistics

RETURN showing the CUSTOMS and EXCISE DUTIES collected at the several Ports of NEW ZEALAND during the QUARTER ended 31st DECEMBER, 1925—continued.

CUSTOMS DUTIES—continued.

HEADS OF REVENUE.	Auckland.	Kaipara.	Tauranga.	Gisborne.	New Plymouth.	Patea.	Wanganui.	Wellington.	Napier.	Wairau (including Picton).	Nelson.	Westport.	Greymouth.	Hokitika.	Lyttelton.	Timaru.	Oamaru.	Dunedin.	Invercargill.	TOTALS.	Corresponding Quarter, 1924.
																				Quantities.	Revenue.
Totals—
General Tariff	£394384	£474	£18390	£18948	£7274	£29576	£397177	£41646	£5214	£11275	£3106	£9527	£1738	£209670	£16075	£896	£156149	£36368		£1,357,907	£1,090,702
British Preferential Tariff	221311	637	4477	11581	1169	11751	263040	14840	1276	4947	1012	3169	381	120231	12294	2643	99172	17580		791,511	677,039
South African Tariff	1285	34	45	39	14	2	857	25	..	..	5	..	..	543	30	..	137	74		3,096	2,865
Primage	43549	4	321	603	2300	112	1733	41630	2778	270	786	149	431	27	20366	1899	444	16498	3590		137,490
Special duty on goods from countries having depreciated currency	30	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	less 41	..	..	1	..	Less 9	4,307
Grand totals	660559	4	1466	23515	32868	8569	43062	702705	59289	6760	17008	4272	13127	2146	350775	30298	3983	271957	57632		2,289,995
Corresponding quarter, 1924	598020	25	2695	19292	26253	6652	35408	546079	52865	6337	11979	3836	11673	2416	280147	30215	2572	207311	42410		..

COMPARATIVE RETURN of CUSTOMS DUTIES for the YEARS 1925 and 1924.

| Year 1925 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 8,287,288 | .. |
| Year 1924 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | .. | 7,461,553 |

EXCISE DUTIES.

HEADS OF REVENUE.	Rates of Duty.	Auckland.	Wellington.	Lyttelton.	Dunedin.	Other Ports.	TOTALS.	Corresponding Quarter, 1924.
							Quantities.	Revenue.
Beer	*	£33,544	£15,313	£24,953	£62,715	£34,760	3,559,054 gal.	£171,285
Tobacco	6s. 3d., 1s. 8d., 1s. 6d. per lb.	232	540	610	406	1,562	43,240 lb.	3,350
Cigars and Snuff	4s. per lb.	427	..	..	..	..	2,016 ,	427
Cigarettes, made by hand	4s.	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
manufactured by machinery	5s. 6d. per lb.	5,874	7,187	2,911	2,492	100	67,504 lb.	18,564
Alcohol used in manufacturing-warehouses in the production of—
Perfumed spirit	36s. per gallon	12	1,179	200	581	16	1,105 gal.	1,988
Toilet preparations	30s.	340	94	246	520	..	801 ,	1,200
Culinary and flavouring essences	16s.	1,048	687	398	1,065	38	4,045 ,	3,236
Medicinal preparations containing more than 50 per cent. of proof spirit	4s. 6d.	155	54	167	226	50	2,908 ,	652
Totals		41,632	25,054	29,485	68,005	36,526	..	200,702
Corresponding quarter, 1924		44,797	27,048	27,542	70,506	38,734	..	..

COMPARATIVE RETURN OF EXCISE DUTIES FOR THE YEARS 1925 AND 1924.

| Year 1925 | | | | | | | 751,519 | .. |
| Year 1924 | | | | | | | 758,769 | .. |

*Minimum, 11½d. per gallon, increasing by 1/16d. for every unit of specific gravity above 1047.

Customs Department, Wellington, 26th February, 1926. GEO. CRAIG, Comptroller of Customs.

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💰 Customs and Excise Duties Collected During Quarter Ended 31st December 1925 (continued from previous page)

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