OUR RAILWAYS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 8965, 3 August 1905, Page 6

OUR RAILWAYS.

SOME INTERESTING FIGURES

In presenting the Railways statement tho Minister for Railways stated that the results of the year may be summarised thus s —

£ £ Total earnings ... 2,209,231 2,180,641 Total expenditure 1.4*92,900 1,438,724 Net- profit on working, 716,331 , 741.917

The mileage of line open for traffic on 31sfc March last was 2374 miles, as against 2328 for the previous year. The number of passengers carried during the year was 8,514,112, an increase of 207,729. Season tickets numbered 140,453, an increase of 10,534. Workers' twelve-trip tickets and workers' weekly tickets totalled 111,303, an increase of 9246. The holiday excursion tickets issued during the year numbered 693,453, a decrease of 1931.

Under the heading of Good Traffic, cattle show an increase of 3489 head ; pigs, 7500 head; woo], 6310 tons; firewood, 3108 tons; minerals, 62,037. Decreases under (he same heading are: Sheep, 34,343 head; chaff, lime, etc., 848 tons; timber, 16,385 tons ; grain, 87,973 tons ; merchandise, 27,312 tons.

The net revenue is equal to a return of 3.30 per cent, on the capital invested in the open lines, and 3.11 per cent, for the total capital, £23,003,704, invested in opened and unopened lines.