RAILWAY TRAFFIC
DECLINE IN BUSINESS INFLUENCE OF MOTOR SERVICES. A considerable falling-off in railway traffic both in respect of passengers and goods is revealed by figures published in Thursday night’s “Gazette." To a large extent the decrease in the total number of passengers carried by train is offset by those handled by the road motor services instituted h- the Railway Department since last year. The statstics cover the period of twelve weeks from April 1 to Julv 23, and compared with the corresponding period of last year the following decreases in passengers are shown :— First-class Passengers. Single 25.666 Return 45.006 Second-class Passengers. Single 108.525 Return 252.152 Total decrease ... 431.349 Deducting from this total 176.230 passengers carried during the twelveweek period of 1927 by the Department’s road motor services, which were not in operation last vear the net decrease is over a Quarter of a million. The total number of passengers carried by the Railway Department during the twelve-week periods April 1 to July 28 (including the road motor services this vear) is as follaws :— 1926 3.170,718 1927 2.915.599 Net decrease' ... 255,119 Th passengers represented bv season ticket holders are shown separately. the figures being as follow:— 1927 190.664 1926 181.915 Increase 8.749 LIVE STOCK AND GOODS. In the live stock traffic on the railways there was a decrease of 14.962 head of cattle and an increase of 25,643 sheep during the twelve weeks ended July 23. as compared with the corresponding period of last vear. the detailed figures being as follow: — 1927. 1926 Cattle 136,995 151.957 Sheep gnd pigs . 2.582,255 2.556.612 Total 2,708.569
A total decrease of 55.161 tons of goods carried during the twelve-week period ended Julv 23. as compared with the correspondin'- period of last year, is made up of 46.402 tons of timber and 87559 tons of other goods the detailed figures being 1927. 1926. Tons. Tons Timber 172,874 219.276 Other goods ... 2,019,670 2,020.429 2,192,544 2.347.705
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 217, 27 August 1927, Page 6
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