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Return showing, under distinct Headings, the respective Amounts contributed by each Provincial District to the Colonial Revenue from Customs, Stamps, Landand Property-tax, Beer-tax, and Territorial Revenue, for the Financial Year ending 31st March, 1886.

James B. Heywood, Accountant to the Treasury. Treasury, 15th July, 1886.

[Approximate Cost of Paper.— Preparation, £5 19s. 9a.; printing (1,250 copies), £1 7s.]

By Authority : Q-eoegb Didsbuey, Government Printer, Wellington. —1886.

Provincial Districts. Customs. Stamps. Land. Property-tax. Beer-tax. Territorial Bevenue. Total. £ s. a. & s. a. £ s. a. £ s. d. £ s. a. £ s. d. £ s. d. Aucklana 352,818 13 0 68,480 8 3 17,540 9 10 42,666 0 0 14,049 3 2 745 2 2 496,299 16 5 Taranaki 5,594 11 4 5,632 0 2 17,298 11 5 5,231 0 0 497 1 6 799 15 9 35,053 0 2 Wellington 275,389 10 7 297,216 17 5 8,674 18 11 49,814 0 0 7,934 9 11 1,145 13 5 640,175 10 3 Hawke's Bay 43,489 6 5 22,704 2 3 8,372 5 4 18,470 0 0 2,625 7 6 1,265 6 4 96,926 7 10 Nelson 54,056 19 6 10,670 3 4 2,607 17 11 10,990 0 0 2,555 10 0 18,131 13 11 99,012 4 8 Marlborough 8,156 15 5 4,957 15 11 2,516 19 9 6,440 0 0 1,009 0 10 8,261 1 3 31,341 13 2 Canterbury 219,155 1 4 82,254 8 1 37,850 6 1 92,905 0 0 11,431 12 10 43,404 7 11 487,000 16 3 Westland 42,241 17 3 2,978 3 1 137 2 9 1,088 0 0 1,374 15 4 867 3 0 48,687 1 5 Otago 413,921 18 0 72,690 1 10 46,925 3 0 98,672 0 0 13,688 6 1 107,212 18 8 753,110 7 7 Totals 1,414,824 12 10 567,584 0 4 141,923 15 0 326,276 0 0 55,165 7 2 181,833 2 5 2,687,606 17 Note. —The figures given for Customs duties and beer-tax represent the amounts collected at the ports in each provincial district. They do not represent the contributions of the respectivi districts to the revenue, because duty-paid goods are largely exported from one district to another for consumption, the foreign import trade of the colony being practically centred in the four principa ports, of which the chief one is in the Provincial District of Otago. The duty from stamps and property-tax can only be stated approximately.