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HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2, 1935.
BRITAIN'S REVENUE U.S. SHIPYARD
RETURNS
Adverse Margin For Nine Months
INCOME TAX MAY YET PRODUCE SURPLUS
OUTPUT SMALLEST
SINCE 1908
CUSTOMS REVENUE DECREASE
$4,900,000 Less Than Last Year
But Navy Building Augurs Well For 1935
INDUSTRIAL PROFITS SHOW 70 PER CENT, INCREASE
New York, Today,
AMOY ALONE HOLDS OWN
Nanking, To-day, London, To-day.
Customs revenue during 1984 de Although there is some dlaap-
creased by $4,900,000, as compared pointment here over the nine
with last year, according to the months' revenue figures when com- The output of American ship returns issued by the Minister of paring them with Tast year's, it is yards for 1934 is estimated at 240 Finance, Dr. H. H. Kung.
There was an increase of revenue generally opined that they are fair. merchant ships totalling 76,567
ly satisfactory. As pointed out, tons and 10 naval vessels totalling in Amoy only, a decrease being last year's nine months' deficit. be 70,600 tons, the smallest output registered at Shanghai, Tientsin, came a substantial balance by since 1908, but the outlook for. 1985 Kinochow, Hankow, Canton, Kow- Dudget day.
is described as encouraging, chiefloon, and Swatow. Reuter,
This year's wide adverse margin ly owing to the Navy's building is due largely to the expansion of programme. supplementary expenditures in dis- tressed areas made by the Unem-made by the Federal Reserve Board,
According to a business survey
LOCAL DOLLAR STEADY
ployment Assistance Board, while industrial prosts for the fun Silver Prices Unquoted these notwithstanding no payments months of the year showed an were made to the United States. increase of 70 per cent. over the
dollar is steady,
Whether a surplus will again be corresponding period of last year. The local available on Budget day depends The increase is due chiefly to In-opening on demand this morning at entirely on the buoyancy of the in-creased earnings in the first six 1/B2.
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come tax returns. The Times months. Profite of the utility and Spot and forward silver prices points out that one lesson is to be railroad companies are below those were not quoted owing to the mar learned from the revenue figures; of last year.
ket being closed. The Board estimates that cash the necessity on the part of the Government to keep strict control of returns to the farmers for the first expenditure, otherwise all hopes of 10 months of 1934 amounted to a further remission of taxes will $5,045,000,000, as compared with disappear and a Budget deficit will $4,099,000,000 last year. Reuter. Jagain loom up---Reuter.
£110,000,000 DEFICIT year, with expenditure at £523,000,-
But Small Surplus Expected
1000, an increase of £9,000,000. The deficit stands at £110,000,000, as (compared with 598,000,000 a year
ago.
The London on New York eross. rates was quoted at £-U.S.$4.945%, as compared with U.S.$4.9834
The New York on London rate was not quoted owing to the holiday.
NEW DESTROYERS DUE TO MORROW Diana Left Behind At Singapore
·Heavy additional expenditure not BRITISH TREASURY RETURNS provided for in the Budget is still The Eighth Destroyer flotilla, to be accounted for, and uncertainty formerly the first Flotilla from the London, To-day. with regard to some items of re- Mediterranean, is expected to arrive Treasury returns for nine months venue discourage optimism in re from Singapore via Manila, to-mor of the financial year show revenue gard to the outcome of the Budget row morning.
at $418,000,000, a decrease of for the year ending March 31, but H.M.S. Diana, of the same flotilla nearly £9,000,000, as compared with present indications are that there was left behind at Singapore and the corresponding period of last will be a small surplus-Reuter will arrive at a later date.
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