TRAMWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13741, 24 May 1910, Page 8

TRAMWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS.

Tho traffic returns for the four weeks friom April Ist to the 2-lth. were submitted at yesterday's meeting of the Tramway Board. Tho following are the principal figures, tho total given including bi-monthly cards, trip tickets, apprentice and school tickets: — ■1 ■ i * _ 2 **■ '" Iks " * _g j_ •- Line. §S_ £ _ ■ Sumner .. 41,445 58,419 85,655 Linwood ~ 55,232 71,326 66,61. Papaniij- .. 123,691 176,937 181225 Cash-Edge. rd. .1 128,555 160,711 1.1,533 Addington .. 73,48t 87.829 97,22-J Brighton .., 34,412 54,772 63 781 Iticcarton .. 35,954 50,415 62*339 Bnrwocd 26,920 36,274 37' 136 Opawa - Fend'ton 43,073 66,218 G.2_) Woolston .. 45.-251 57,502 69,668 T °tal .. 015,026 820,163' 835,762 Same period last ?«•** .. 707,274 895,762 — It should be ixpl-a-ined, in regard lo the apparent falling off, taat the returns' for April of 1909 included tho Easter .ea.'on traffic, which fell to March this year. The revenue account for the same period (24 days) is compared with the April return for lust year J2S days), the figures for April, 1909, being given in parenthesis :—Gross earnings from operation _6556 7s 9d {_7938 2s 4d) operating expenses i 3346 6s f_43lG 19s Bdj, rjet earnings i._ 650 Is 3d (£362* 2s Sd). Various deductions for interest, depreciation, and other ch-rpes have to be made, and the filial return shows that the profit for April thin year is _*_13 16s Id. as against -HOG lc* nd last year. It has again to bo noted that the fi-rurcß for Apni, 1909, include an Easter acaE?n.