RAILWAY TRAFFIC

Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 110, 5 April 1930, Page 4

RAILWAY TRAFFIC

DECREASE IN REVENUE. , WELLINGTON, April 4. A revenue decrease of £36,749 and Bn expenditure increase of £18,446 are the features of the railway' returns (just issued) for the four-weekly period which ended on March 1 last. The total revenue’ for the period was '£735,191, compared with £771,940 for the corresponding period of last year, and the expenditure £571,884, as •gainst £553,438. ’ The North Island road motor services carried 265,336 passengers, an, increase of 10,819, and earned £BI9O, a decrease of £124. On the South Island road motor services 6838 passengers (an .increase of 962) were carried, and £529 (an increase of £8 was earned. ; ‘ The appended details from the railways' working account show the revenue and expenditure for the period under review, ' compared • with the figures for the corresponding period last year:— REVENUE,

ELEVEN MONTHS’ FIGURES. The total revenue from April 1. 1929, to March I .last was £7,487,863, a falling off of £32,487, ' and the expenditure was £6,773,994, a rise rf £472,162. Passengers carried totalled 10,772,810, including 3,018,587 who used the road motor services, and season tickets issued amounted to 608,188. There was a total falling-off of 116,166 in passengers and 182- in season tickets. . Goods carried totalled .6,572,321 lons,' an increase of 96,834.

193a 1929. £ £ North Island ; 393,648 426,645 278,380 ■ : 288,289 Miscellaneous 28,14523,169 Lake .-Wakatipu • steamers 1,079 1,200 Refreshment rooms, advertising, road motors, and other subsidiary fervices 25,563 24,461 Totals 735,191 • 771,940 EXPENPITURE. , 1930.' 1929. . ■ £ £ North Island ; 301,412 293,894 South Island 230,572 221,393 Lake Wakatipu steamers 1,162 1,154 Refreshment rooms, etc. 23,884 23,257 Rwoilings • 14,852 . 13,738 Totals : 571,884 553,438