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TABLE IV.
Revenue derived from Opium, Liquor and Tobacco during the years 1897-1926.
Year
Gross
Opium
Liquor
Licences
Liquor
Tobacco
Duties
Duties
Nett.
1897
286,000
67.137
1898
357,667
74.208
1899
372,000
82,505
1900
372,000
107.255
1901
NOTE.-Govern-
687,000
125,909
1902
ment took over
750,000
124,299
1903
the opium moo-
750,000
215,269
(1)
1904
poly
from the 1,945,000
E
293,082
1905
1906
1907
1908
1909
1910
Farmer on 1st 2,040,000 March, 1914. The | 2,040,000 nett revenue is | 1,550,000 arrived at by de- | 1,452,000 ducting from the 1,452,000 gross revenue the
273,343
257,365
275,157
253,675
232,292
87.387
1,228,000
233,605
387.786
1911
cost of manufac- 1,183,000
J
222,345
617,014
(1)
1912
ture.
1,183,000
237,866
705.575
1913
1,183.000
249.815
729,233
1914
3,741,500
2,819,540
241,393
656.956
1915
4,701,878
3,812,203
257.830
626,575
1916
5.811,110
4,929,873
238.967
793.762
211.182
1917
5,887,475
5,273,904
266.124
1918
8,686,622
8,047,289 (1)
234,184
1919
6,803,035
6.105,500
275,939
1920
4,317,971
3.941.251
267,571
1921
3,938,198
3,483,651
273,776
1922
5,551,305
i
5,067,051
297,703
1923
5,712,057
4,946,150
1924
5,147.043
4,459,756
1925
3,392,381
2,567,670
1926
2,831,305
2,140,392
2233
336,900
377,411
400.119
NAMM ONAN
781.215
499,872
714,994 (2)
544.860
739,786 (3)
618.906
779,796
631,878
1,040,637
(4)
393,898
1,196,790 (5) 1,289,993 (3) 1.828.569 1,229,263 (2) | 2,007,105 1,140,925 (2) 1,796,859 1,186,313 (6) 1,835.345
1.062,031 1.474,678
11231)14
(1) Increased selling price.
(2) Increased sales.
(2) More licences
(1) Increased
consumption,
(3) Decreased sales.
Year.
Fees increased (1) Increased
issued.
(3) Fewer licences
issued.
duty.
(2) Decreased (2) Increased duty
consumption..
(3) Increased
consumption.
part year.
(3) Increased duty
whole year.
(4) Increased duty (4) Decreased
part year.
(5) Jacreased duty
whole year.
(6) Increased duty
on Chinese liquor from
October.
consumption.
TABLE V.
Land Sale figures for the years 1919-1926, illustrative of the land boom.
$
Year.
1919
263,960
1923
3.488.797
1920
556.349
1924
1,909,236
1921
1,634,098
1925
570,248
1922
2,721,804
1926
286,342