THE STATE RAILWAYS.

Greymouth Evening Star, 5 February 1910, Page 4

THE STATE RAILWAYS.

‘| l’l!< iSl’Ki; (TV \N 11 Ki i »\( >M y, , j {By Telegraph—Special to the Star). 1 | WKI.I.IXC |d\, | his IJJ;jy. I Tie- tigiir.-s showing tin- railway ' j revenue for tie- peri od <ijiJ. --1 danuarv ! 8(li indie,air (hat •■(•■■iiomy is eoiny j liand in hand with prosperity in the Railway Department. Tin- 11 < ,i< .1 \. .Millar. Minister f or Railways. explained |., a X, w / {.dan,! Thin s 1,-pr,-scutativo that- the rev, for tin- four j weeks ended daimarv Bth showed an increase of £22,000 compared with the corresponding ]>. riod ~f last year, while (lie mvmi,- for the year to dale indicated that the raihiays are £IBO,OOO net heifer oft flian last year al this period. ‘The revenue lias increased hy £273,000." said the Minister, "hut in earn (his hit; increase we htiv,- duly had to increase our expenditure hv £85,000 or about 31 per cent of (he revenue,’’ ■'l*}as tin- increase in long distance passenger fares prejudiced the volume of fra Hie ?” Mr .Millar was asked If,replied (hat the p<-riod covered hv his fin "res ended the day before the in(hat there was yet no definite indicicreascd rates came info operation so fion hut there had certainly heen no falling off in (he trafTic on (In- lone distance trains. Tho conference of District floods Man,leers which opens in Wellington on Monday will deal not only with the Minister’s scheme of limiting the fre- ' qnency of goods services for wayside < stations strictly to tlmir capacity to t provide profitable traffic, but also with gencrjal traffic matters in (heir respective district.