TRAMWAY AFFAIRS.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13908, 6 December 1910, Page 8

TRAMWAY AFFAIRS.

REVENUE AND TRAFFIC

The usual monthly revenue and traffic returns were presented at the meeting of the Tramway Board yesterday. Thc revenue account for the twenty-eight days from October 10th to November 9th, showed that the gross earnings from operations had been £8871 16s lid as against £7739 8s for the corresponding period of last year. Th© operating expenses amounted to £5019 19s 9d, as against £4493 15s 3d. Tlie profit amounted to £994 17s 7d, as against £495 16s 7d for the corresponding period of last year. For the eight mor.ths ending November last the Board had made a profit of £1466 13s, as against a deficiency, of £416 14s 5a in the corresponding period of the previous year. The traffic returns for the four weeks from October 16th to November 6th, and a comparison with the corresponding period of last year, showed the following : —

Same period hist year .. .. 692,844 — — The Chairman drew attention to the increase in revenue from the Burwood line, which he said was largely due to tho re-arrangement of the penny section, which had been brought back from Armagh street to Worcester street, thereby increasing the twopenny fares considerably.

Lino. Sumner .. Linwood .. Papanui .. ., Cash.-Edge. road Addington Now Brighton .. Riccarton Burwood Opawa-Fcndalton Woolston Cranford street .. ■ 3 •0**" s -2 »2 * fcu 53,106 81,089 136,116 140,769 74,738 51,616 51,107 63,094 51,172 36,287 5 to . SI . I ft 33 o**" H 79,961 85,605 202,586 161,779 94,766 79,878 66,606 56.548 78,693 66,721 41.712 si I . "a c J: - EH m 74.890 71,865 193,925 169,873 94,345 70,781 " 68,108 39,787 71,776 64,076 Total 772.545 1,034,915 919,429