MORE PASSENGER TRAFFIC

Waikato Times, Volume 112, Issue 18697, 25 July 1932, Page 8

MORE PASSENGER TRAFFIC

HAMILTON RAILWAY RETURNS. BIGGER GOODS REVENUE. A marked increase in passenger trafllo Is disclosed in the quarterly returns of the Hamilton railway station, the 11,593 passengers from the staj tion being 1167 In excoss of those | carried in the same porlod last year. I Revenue (£3091) dropped £7O on the I corresponding quarter of 1931, but this is accounted for by ihe new scalo of fares, which are approximately only two thirds of the old rate. ■Outward parcels revenue amounted to £649, as against £702 last year, while miscellaneous goods and rents brought in £865, an increase of £432 on the 1931 period. Inward parcels revenue amounted to £703, compared with £505 last year. On ihe goods side outward traffic was responsible for £4021 of revenue, as against £3093 in tho corresponding quarterly period last year. , The stock carried, with last year’s | figures in parenthesis, were: Cattle and ! calves, 2397 (1482); sheep and pigs, ■2381 (5559); timber, 152 tons (132 (tons); goods, 2183 tons (2035 Ions). Inward goods Irafnc revenue j amounted to £6945, an increase of 1 £245 on last year’s quarterly returns. Tho figures were cattle and calves, , 142 (93); sheep and pigs, 29 (58), ' timber, 1068 ( 1286); goods, 6029 . (6944). 3 - i