RAILWAY REVENUE
[Bt Te-soraph.] fIROK OUB SPBCIAIi CO-BXSFONOBNT.I WELLINGTON, February 6. The nil way revenue continues to come in most favorably. Up to the 2nd January the gross receipts were £820,615, as against -$793,774 for the corresponding forty weeks of the previous year, equal to an increase of nearly £33,000. The expenditure waa .£532,856, against £506,944, an increase of about £26,000, showing an increase of £7000 in net revenue. Notwithstanding that last year's returns were supposed to be abnormally inflated by the Dunedin Exhibition, the traffic this year displays a marked improvement all round. The passengers carried daring the forty weeks mentioned were 2,605,333, or 10,500 more than last year {mduding season tickets). Parcels, &c, showed an increase of 4551, live stock the enormous increase of 206,629, goods an increase of 24.378 tons—notwithstanding a decrease of 9503 tons in minerals, owing to the strike —and a felling off of 17,698 tons in timber. The returns to January 30th are not yet complete, bnt the receipts are estimated approximately at £920,000 for the ten months, indicating a large surplus above the estimated amount as probable at the end of the financial year (31st pro**
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Press, Volume XLVIII, Issue 7780, 6 February 1891, Page 5
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