REVENUE
DETAILS OF REVENUE.
1.-DUTIES.
Approved Estimate
Estimate
1937.
1936.
7
Import Duty on Liquor
Motor Spirit
Perfumed Spirits
Tobacco
Duty on locally manufactured liquor
800,000
670,000
930,000 750,000 (1)
65,000
85,000 (2)
2,800,000
3,750,000 (1)
1,000,000
900,000 (3)
Total
$
5,885,000
6,415,000
2.-PORT & HARBOUR DUES.
- Light Dues
Buoy Dues
400,000
510,000 (4)
140,000
125,000 (5)?
€A
$
540,000
635,000
Total
3.-LICENCES & INTERNAL REVENUE
NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED.
(A) LICENCES.
Air Services, Pilot
Arms
Auctioneers
Billiard Table
Boat
395 24,000
400 24,000
1,800
900
116,000
1,800 300 113,000 (6)
Chinese Boarding House
14,000
16,500 (7)
Chinese Passenger Ship
..
1,500
1,500
Chinese Undertakers
1,400
1,400
Companies Local, Registers
2,000
2,000
Dangerous Goods
17,000
18,000 (7)
Dogs
15,500
18,000 (8)
Emigration Passage Broker
1,200
1,200
Ferries
406,000
406,300
Fishing Stake & Station
900
900
Forestry N. T.
11,000
10,500
Game
5,100
5,100
Hawker
90,000
90.000
Junk
48,000
43,000 (6)
Liquor
370,000
370,000
Marine Store Dealer
Marriage
Mining N. T.
Miscellaneous
Money Changers Motor Spirit Opium Monopoly Pawnbroker Special Food
Steam Launch
14,400
12,400 (9)
2,900
3,200
2,000
6,000
6,200
17,000
16,400
3,000
3,000
300,000
250,000 (10)
225,000
160,000 (11)
18,000
18,000
15,000
15,000
Theatrical
Tobacco
Vehicles Motor
4,000
4,000
65,000
65,000
185,000
232,000 (8)
Motor Drivers Other
40,000
45,000 (7)
50,000
46,000 (12)
Carried forward
$
2,073,995
2,000,100
(1) Duties increased.
(2) Increased consumption, (3) Decreased consumption.
(4) Lower rate of exchange.
(5) Less use of buoys and more ships laid up.
(6) More vessels laid up.
(7) More licences..
(8) Increased fee.
(9) Fewer dealers.
(10) Reduction in price of opium and less consumption.
(11) Several establishments closed.
(12) Fewer rickshaws and chairs.
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