CITY TRAMWAYS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 914, 6 September 1910, Page 8

CITY TRAMWAYS.

i FOUR WEEKS'. WORKING. Tlii> City Tramways Engineer•' (Mr. Stuart Kichardson), reporting on the returns of tramway and power supply revenue and expenditure for tlie four weeks ended August 18, 1910, states that the tramway revenue amounts to .£1)513, an increase of £263 as compared with the corresponding period of last year. '• Tho working expenses amounted to =67088, or £346 more.than last year. The revenue from sale .of current amounted to £SB7, an increase of .£ll3 as compared with,last year, and the working expenses to ,£379, or £72 more than last year. ' The total revenue from tramways and power supply to date amounts.to ,£52,860, an increase of .£1778 . as compared, with last year. The total working expenses to date amount to £36,757, or .£B9l more than last year. ' . After ■ providing for proportion of nil capital charges, the net result of_ the working, of the .undertaking to date is a. credit balance of £568, as compared with a. debit balance last. year - of.' £318.' Tho proportion of. net profit" on tramways and power supply respectively is as'-follows (the corresponding figures for 1909 being given in : parentheses) •— Tramways, £150 credit (.£538 debit); power, supply, ,£4lB credit (.£220 credit); total, ,£568 credit (,£3lB debit)., . '■;..-. , Weekly Return. '-: According to the weekly, return,. . tho receipts on the city tramwayn during tut week ending last Sunday showed an increase, of '£15G Us. 2d. over those for tho corresponding period of last year. < The daily takings were as follow '(those for the corresponding week of, 1909, being given in parentheses):—Monday, £326,11». isd. (£344 10s. 7(1.);■ Tuesday, £158 65.-Mi (£3-1-2 4s. 6d.); Wednesday, - .£376 3s.'Bu. (,£343 16s. 3d.); -Thursday,': ,£383- 155. : 3 d. (£319 12s. 9d.); Friday, dCBB7 9s. ,5d.(£812 14s. 5d.); Saturday, £487 Is. 5d.'(£499 it,. 5d.); : Sundav/£221 13s. lid. (£186.135. lid): total, £2541 Is. (£2384 Cs. 10(1). •