CO129-568-4 Estimates 1939 8-10-1938 - 6-7-1939 — Page 173

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DETAILS OF Revenue,

1.-DUTIES.

REVENUE

Approved Estimate 1938.

Estimate 1939.

Import Duty on Liquor

Motor Spirit

Perfumed Spirits .... Tobacco

1,175,000 770,000 100,000

1,500,000 (1)

900,000 (2)

120,000

3,800,000

4,600,000 (1)

Duty on locally manufactured liquor

975,000

1,250,000 (1)

Total

6,820,000

8,370,000

2.-PORT & HARBOUR DUES.

Light Dues

530,000

475,000

(3)

Buoy Dues

125,000

125,000

Total

655,000

600,000

3.-LICENCES & INTERNAL REVENUE

NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED.

(A) Licences.

Air Services, Pilot

Arms

600

24,000

Auctioneers

Billiard Table

Boat

600 25,000 (4)

1,800

1,500 (5)

1,400

1,400

113,000

127,000

Chinese Boarding House

16,500

Chinese Passenger Ship

16,500

1,500

1,500

Chinese Undertakers

1,400

1,400

Companies Local, Registers

2,000

2,250 (4)

Dance Halls

Dangerous Goods

4,000 (6)

19,000

25,000

Dogs

22,000

22,000

Emigration Passage Broker

1,400

1,400

Ferries

406,300

Fishing Stake & Station

406,401

1,000

Forestry N. T.

1,000

10,000

10,000

Game

5,100

5,000 (5)

Hawker

Junk

Liquor

Marine Store Dealer

Marriage

Miscellaneous

Money Changers

Motor Spirit

Opium Monopoly

Pawnbroker

Pharmacy and Poisons

Printing Press

Special Food

Steam Launch

75,000

65,000 (5)

38,000

42,000

320,000

325,000

10,000

9,000 (5)

3,200

3,500 (4)

7,200

500 (7)

16,400

16,000 (5)

3,000

3,000

275,000

350,000 (8)

154,000

156,500

1,000 (6)

3,500 (6)

19,000

20,000

15,000

16,500

Theatrical

Tobacco

Vehicles Motor

Motor Drivers

""

Other

Carried forward

4,000

4,000

70,000

70,000

300,000

340,000 (4)

47,000

55,000 (4)

46,000

40,000 (5)

2,029,800

2,172,451

(1) Increased population.

(2) Increased number of cars

(3) Interruption of Coastal Trade. (4) More licences.

(5) Fewer licences.

(6) New head.

(7) Less licences, see explanation (6). (8) Increased consumption.

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