RAILWAY RETURNS.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1190, 21 December 1894, Page 38

RAILWAY RETURNS.

The return of railway receipts and expenditure for the four weeks ending 10th. November shows the receipts to have been £81,714 13s Id, and the expenditure £53,006 11s lid. In the corresponding period of last year the figures were: —Receipts, £80,056 14s; expenditure, £54,128 13s 7d. Of the revenue,' the North Island lines contributed £33,422 8s 6d, as against £30,301 Os 2d for the corresponding four weeks of last year; and the Middle Island lines £49,292 4s 7d, as against £49,755 13s lOd. The North. Island lines absorbed of the expenditure £19,888 5s 7d, as against £19,429 Os 3d, and the Middle Island lines £33,118 6s 4d, as against £34,697 13s 4d. The proportion of expenses to revenue on the several lines, calculated on an annual average, for the respective periods of 1894 and 1893 was as follows : —North Island —Kawakawa, 146"70, 92‘62 ; Whangarei, 87'78, 75 - 89; Kaihu, 97*61, 93-61'; Auckland, 7492, 71-89; NapierTaranaki, 69*55, 67 58; Wellington, 75*98, 69-98. Middle Island Hurunui-Bluff, 68 33, 63*48; Greymoutli-Brunner, 53'16, 55 - 55; Grreymouth-llokitika, 55*99, ; Westport, 49 64, 57*37; Nelson, 97*83, 105*94; Picton, 125*09, 114*54 : grand total, 69*63 65 - 91. On the Wellington section the receipts amounted to £6OOO, as against £5791 12s 9cl for the corresponding four weeks of last year; the number of passengers carried was 29 } 549, as against 29,365; the fares amounted to £2471 19s 6d, as against £2364 8s id; the freight on goods showed an increase from £3OIO 12s 9d to £3150 19s Bd.