THE RAILWAY REVENUE.
The New Zealand Railway revenue for the first forty weeks of the current financial year amounted to L 793,774, as compared with L 745,068
for the corresponding period of the previous year. The working expenses amounted to L 508,944, as against L 458,289 last % year ; but this, although an increase, was in sra filer proportion to revenue than was the expenditure of 1888-9, the proportion of receipts absorbed by working expenses being only 63 per cent, this year as against 65 per cent, last year. The traffic for the period in question comprised 2,495,793 passengers (increase 129,457) ; 308,014 parcels, &c. (increase 4628) ; 682,773 live stock (increase 43,381) ; and 1,537,109 tons of goods (increase 60,502 tons). The numerical traffic showed a decrease of 21,125 tons.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 937, 14 February 1890, Page 28
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