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from the gross receipts under this section as by law should
have been the case.
At the end of 1910 over $5,200,000 had been laid out, this had increased to $8,000,000 by 1920 and the figure on the
31st December, 1929, was/over $12,000,000. It will be seen
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therefore that if 4 on this sum of $5,200,000 increasing to, $12,000,000 had been deducted annually from the gross revenue
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before the contribution of 20 was levied the annual reduction of the military contribution for the twenty years in question would have been amounts increasing from $41,600 in 1911 to $96,000 in 1930, a considerable sum of money.
It would thus appear that subsequent to 1910 deductions from the total revenue assessable for ilitary contribution which should have been made have been overlooked. I am unable to assign the reason for this oversight, but I propose, with your permission, (while making no recalculation on account of over payments already made) to abide for the future by the terms of the Ordinance. This will involve the deduction of a total of 4 of $12,000,000
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from the assessable revenue on account of 1931, and after 1931 on the deduction from the assessable revenue of an amount to be calculated in accordance with the Ordinance each year up to the expiry of 50 years from the time expenditure was incurred.
The revenue from Excess Water Account alone (which is
payment per 1,000 gallons for water used in excess of a free allowance based on a calculation of the rated value of the
premises, under Ordinance 16 of 1903) was in
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1911
$135,520
1917
$184,135
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1923 $490,284
1912
181,621
1918
$188,383
1924
540,533
1913
161,595
1919
217,183
1925
538,035
1914
189,440
1920
257 834
1926
471,679
1915
169,448
1921
314,068
1927
634,222
1916
190,091
1922
453,526
1928
768,898
1929
615,458
Edwin Taylor,
Deputy Treasurer.
9m 17:30
December, 1930-
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