New Zealand Gazette – 1929 – No. 12

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✨ Customs and Excise Revenue Statistics

RETURN showing the CUSTOMS and EXCISE DUTIES collected at the several Ports of NEW ZEALAND during the QUARTER ended 31st DECEMBER, 1928—continued.

Customs Duties—continued.

HEADS OF REVENUE.	Rates of Duty.	Auckland.	Kaipara.	Tauranga.	Gisborne.	New Plymouth.	Patea.	Wanganui.	Wellington.	Napier.	Waiau (including Picton).	Nelson.	Westport.	Greymouth.	Hokitika.	Lyttelton.	Timaru.	Oamaru.	Dunedin.	Invercargill.	TOTALS.	Corresponding Quarter, 1927.
Totals—
General Tariff	£	£	£	£	£	£	£	£	£	£	£	£	£	£	£	£	£	£	£	£	Quantities.	Revenue.
		372077		453	15892	17704	5570	19483	504229	43182	4229	17387	3364	8311	1384	174123	11793	780	133679	25985		1,359,625
British Preferential Tariff		195961		304	3787	10065	1128	6688	205395	11877	1105	4104	1123	4080	177	80123	14315	2190	67357	13213		622,992
Primage		36048	12	24	465	1781	88	1095	36044	1981	155	875	152	496	23	13875	1334	251	11460	2273		108,432
Grand totals..																						2,091,049
Corresponding quarter, 1927		526621		647	16272	31624	4591	23480	650166	46986	4552	16096	3580	8517	1195	240695	17081	2748	178500	35471

• COMPARATIVE RETURN OF CUSTOMS DUTIES FOR THE YEARS 1928 AND 1927.

| Year 1928 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 7,648,747 | |
| Year 1927 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 8,110,497 |

EXCISE DUTIES.

HEADS OF REVENUE.	Rates of Duty.	Auckland.	Wellington.	Lyttelton.	Dunedin.	Other Ports.	TOTALS.	Corresponding Quarter, 1927.
		£	£	£	£	£	Quantities.	Revenue.
Beer	(a)	35,490	15,789	22,756	64,901	31,010	3,550,921 gals.	169,946
Tobacco	6s. 3d., 1s. 8d., 1s. 6d. per lb.	94	368	282	218	15,297	281,661 lb.	16,259
Cigars and snuff	6s. 6d., 4s. per lb.	414					2,070 ,,	414
Cigarettes, made by hand	4s. per lb.
Cigarettes, manufactured by machinery	5s. 6d. per lb.	10,839	10,895	4,342	4,246		110,266 ,,	30,322
Alcohol used in manufacturing-warehouses in the production of—
Perfumed spirit	36s. per gallon		1,185	307	414		1,059 gals.	1,906
Toilet preparations	30s. ,,	217	203	226	273	9	619 ,,	928
Culinary and flavouring essences	16s. ,,	1,231	370	528	942	38	3,888 ,,	3,109
Medicinal preparations containing more than 50 per cent. of proof spirit	4s. 6d. ,,	132	65	161	252	60	2,981 ,,	670
Totals		48,417	28,875	28,602	71,246	46,414		223,554
Corresponding quarter, 1927		43,149	24,927	27,605	68,622	46,899

COMPARATIVE RETURN OF EXCISE DUTIES FOR THE YEARS 1928 AND 1927.

| Year 1928 | | | | | | | 810,179 | |
| Year 1927 | | | | | | | | 752,315 |

(a) Minimum of 11½d. per gallon, increasing by ¹⁄₁₆ d. for every unit of specific gravity above 1047.

Customs Department, Wellington, 19th February, 1929. GEO. CRAIG, Comptroller of Customs.

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💰 Customs and Excise Duties collected at various ports in New Zealand for the quarter ended 31st December, 1928 (continued from previous page)

Domain💰 Finance & Revenue
Dated19 February 1929
KeywordsCustoms, Excise, Duties, Revenue, Ports, New Zealand, Statistics
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