RAILWAY RETURNS.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1315, 13 May 1897, Page 39

RAILWAY RETURNS.

Tlio return of railway receipts and expenditure for the four weeks ending 31st March shows the receipts to have been £123,699 5s 2d, and the expenditure £S 1,337 14s Id. In the corresponding period of the previous year the figures wore .£121,120 4s lid and .£72,52<5 lSs“7d respectively. Of the revenue for the four weeks ending 31st March last tho North Island lines contributed .£45,231 12s 7d, as against £ 15,589 4s 2d, and tho Middle Island lines -€78,4(57 12s 7d, as against .£75,531 Os 9d. 'lho North Island lines absorbed of tho expenditure .£37,102 163 Id, as against .£28,911118 10d, and tho Middle island lines £47,234 18s Od, as against £43,585 Os 9d. Tho proportion of expenses to revenue on the several lines, calculated on an annual average, for tho respective periods of 1897-96, was as follows-.—North Island—Kawakawa, Ill’ll, SI 91: Whangarei, 8019,82 11; Kaih 11, 43-52, 51 58: Auckland, (51T1’67T4; Napior-Taranaki. 67 77, G4\54; Wellington, 58’91, 59’91. Middle Island— Hurunui-Bluff, 59 27, Go 22 ; GreymouthBrunner, 59 27, 49 83 ; Grcyraouth-Hokitika, 52 35, 51'71 ; Westport, 45 22, 48’59 ; Nelson, 95-61, 8S 9S ; Picton, 109‘23, 120‘07. r l’ho receipts on the Wellington section for the four weeks ending :11st March were £9549 7s Id, as against £8553 Ids 8d in the corresponding period last year, and the number of passengers carried was 39,197, as against 38,591.