RAILWAY RETURNS.
REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE.
FIGURES FOR 10 MONTHS.
Tiie revenue of the Government railways for the four-weekly period ended February 2, and for the expired portion of the financial year-April 1, 1917, to February 2, .1918—is shown as follows in the official returns: — NORTH ISLAND. Miles Four- Total Open, weekly. to date. Wlungarei 71 £4,355 15 2 £13.950 9 i Kaihu ... 20 540 11 0 5.961 19 1 OiitoM 48 2,654 O'J 22,992 11 10 Main lints and bran- „ „ ... ... „ , ches ... 1,126 250,869 11 9 2,171,065 9 7 Totals ... 1,269 £258,430 1 8 £2,242,973 9 10 SOUTH ISLAND. Miles Four- Total Open, weekly, to date. Main lines ches "1*1.404 £148.020 15 9 £1.295,672 16 11 Westland 157 12.111 7 0 129.032 18 0 Wcstport 36 9,022 3 4 89,172 15 1 Nelson ... 01 2,999 4 6 27.403 1 6 Pioton ... 56 2,077 10 3 25,034 11 9 Wakatipu „ . , ,„, 10 ■> steamers - 802 16 9 5,521 IS 3 Totals 1,714 £176.833 17 7 £1.571,839 11 G'd til. 2,983 £435,263 19 3 £3,814,812 1 4 The expenditure for the same periods was: — , , , Four-weekly. Total to dale. North Island— „„„ „. ~ , Whangarei ... £3,114 7 5 £30.594 12 i Kaihu ... 098 14 1 8.039 14 9j Gisborne ... 1.952 1 7 17,891 11 8 Main lines & .„».«.. r - branches ... 140,125 6 0 1,304,344 5 7 Totals ... £145.890 9 1 £1359,770 4 7 South Island— M SSn&* £100.670 10 O £948,928 28 Westland ... 9.523 14 6 90.168 10 Westnoit ... 4,373 2 8 44,233 11 10 Nelson 2173 8 3 23.665 9 1 Picton ... 3.066 0 1 22,778 6 7 MS! 549 13 7 6,623 17 3 Totals ...£120.361 9 1 £1.136,397 9 3 G'd totals £266,151 18 1 £2,496.167 13 10 The percentage of expenditure to revenue in the period covered by the above figures, and in the corresponding period of the last financial year, was: — 1917-18 1916-17. North Island— ~ „, rn ., Whangarei 71.23 63.01 Kaihu 116.34 110.15 Gisborne ... , ... 77.81 60.93 Main lines and branches 60.08 57.13 Totals 60.62 67.41 South IslandMa ; lines and bran- , choa 73.24 66.18 Westland 69.8S 60.64 Westport 49 60 44.90 Nelson 86.36 77 57 picton 90 - 99 "- 63 L. Wakatipu steam'ra 119.96 95.42 Total, 7230 64.97 Grand totals ... 65.43 60.01
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16796, 12 March 1918, Page 6
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