The railway revenue for the year ended March 31 ; totals £1,183,040 and the expenditure £751,367, the net profit therefore being £431,673." The cost of 2,014 miles of opened lines is given at £15,352,013, and the profit therefore amounts to £2 ISs 9d per cent. This ie in round numbers £10,600 better than the estimate and £13,000 better than last year. Exclusive of aborigines and Maoris Australasia is estimated .to have a population of 4,238,369, of whom 2,259,533 are males. I The. total trade of Australasia in 1895 showed an increase of £3,233,321, a rise of 2'90 per cent, as compared with a fail of 6 70 por cent, in the previous year,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10132, 15 May 1896, Page 3 (Supplement)
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