Fiji Finances Healthy
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Fiji Finances Healthy
Suva, Jan. 2.
CUSTOMS revenue for 11 months ended November 30, shows an increase of £67,791 on the estimate.
Import duties brought in £376,942 —an increase of £61,150; Port and Customs service import tax totalled £25,233, an increase of £6,900. The only decrease was £259 in the Port and Customs service export tax. Total revenue was £416,583, an increase of £68,050.
Although the Colony’s expenditure has exceeded the figures for the same period of 1935 by £41,561, details of the balance of revenue over expenditure for the nine months ended September 30 show that this amounted to £83,944.
The largest item of revenue was from Customs —£332,994, compared with £283,590. Total