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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