New Zealand Gazette – 1926 – No. 78

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✨ Customs and Excise Revenue

RETURN showing the CUSTOMS and EXCISE DUTIES collected at the several Ports of New Zealand during the QUARTER ended 30th SEPTEMBER, 1926--continued.

CUSTOMS DUTIES--continued.


HEADS OF REVENUE.	Rates of	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. 1925.
Duty.																					Quantities.	Revenue.
Totals--	£	£	£	£	£	£	£	£	£	£	£	£	£	£	£	£	£	£	£	£	£	£
General Tariff	413786	368	19210	18980	7219	27986	429967	37863	4734	8722	3568	10235	1444	196686	14455	546	195249	27634		1,358,652	1,270,668
British Preferential Tariff	232777	273	8160	9038	1188	9932	234071	13634	1537	4182	975	2560	319	87353	8128	1732	66611	9927		692,392	735,262
South African Tariff	919	27	61	49	18	16	874	5		1				726	6		164	66		2,927	1,675
Primage	42125	31	846	1724	102	1517	37765	2338	297	559	148	343	36	15175	1328	208	11359	2332		118,233	117,824
Special duty on goods from countries having depreciated currency																				less	13
Grand totals	689607	699	28277	29786	8522	39451	702677	53840	6568	13464	4691	13138	1799	299940	23917	2486	213383	39959		2,172,204
Corresponding quarter, 1925	650948	1	1208	24738	28918	6974	39484	652575	61295	6123	12509	4107	11494	1772	302705	25110	2372	246621	46002			2,125,816

EXCISE DUTIES.


HEADS OF REVENUE.	Rates of	Auckland.	Wellington.	Lyttelton.	Dunedin.	Other Ports.	TOTALS.
---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	Corresponding Quarter, 1925.
Duty.		£	£	£	£	£	Quantities.	Revenue.
Beer	*	26,851	11,360	19,785	51,362	28,590	2,780,233 gal.	137,948 \| 143,291
Tobacco	6s. 3d., 1s. 8d., 1s. 6d. per lb.	287	488	325	407	2,412	52,934 lb.	3,919 \| 3,129
Cigars and Snuff	4s. per lb.,	383					1,914	388 \| 401
Cigarettes, made by hand	4s.							\| 18
manufactured by machinery	5s. 6d. per lb.	4,480	5,732	2,556	2,429		52,261 lb.	15,197 \| 16,530
Alcohol used in manufacturing-warehouses in the production of--								\|
Perfumed spirit	36s. per gallon		26	85	147		143 gal.	258 \| 882
Toilet preparations	30s.	289	171	141	756	2	906	1,359 \| 1,156
Culinary and flavouring essences	16s.	519	289	233	1,015		,570	2,056 \| 2,517
Medicinal preparations containing more than 50 per cent. of proof spirit	4s. 6d.	207	73	322	352	68	4,541	1,022 \| 787
Totals		38,016	18,139	23,447	56,468	31,072		162,142 \|
Corresponding quarter, 1925		34,444	21,485	24,047	56,973	31,762		\| 168,711

* Minimum, 11½d. per gallon, increasing by 1½d. for every unit of specific gravity above 1047.

Customs Department, Wellington, 17th November, 1926.

GEO. CRAIG, Comptroller of Customs.

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