NORTHERN WAIROA RAILWAY RETURNS.
The railway traffic returns give the following particulars concerning the North Auckland small railways for the four weeks ending December 7,1895, and for the corresponding four weeks of 1894 :— Kawakawa Section. v 1895. ISO 4. Passengers .. ..336 330 floods 1,168 tons 071 tons venue £201 1 4 £152 6 10 Expenditure .. .. £163 210 £10013 8 ' Whangaubi Section. Passengers .. .. 3,147 2,830 Goods 3,706 tons 2,478 tons Revenue £810 1110 £401 0 0 Expenditure ~ /.. £524 18 » £34817 0 Kaihd suction. Passengers .. .. 1,409 1,092 Good* 1.185 tons 1,419 tons Revenue.. .. .. £331 18 2 £34.113 a i'xpsnditure £103 29 - £162 2 3 The estimated cost of construction of the above sections as far as opened has been:— Whangarci, £115,834; Kawakawa, £90,337; and Kaihu, £51,138. The last-named is holding its own well as a profitable liue, for although the amount of people and goods carried is much less than on the Wlmugarci line, yet the expenditure bus been so small that the profits for the mouth are £168 16s, against only £85 on the Whangarei line, with its much larger bußineßß.-f.Owu Correspondent.] ... >•
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10036, 24 January 1896, Page 6
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