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TABLE No. 14. STATEMENT showing the Receipts and Expenditure of the New Zealand Railways for the Tears 1877-78, 1878-79, and 1879-80.

* Return tickets counted as one passenger. t Return and Saturday tickets counted as two passengers. R. "Whitakeb, Chief Accountant, Railway Department.

Particulars. 1877-78. Twelve Months. 1878-79. Twelve Months. 1879-80. Nine Months. Receipts. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. Parcels, Passengers, &c. ... Goods and Live Stock Miscellaneous 255,0s 1 18 1 281,238 19 1 33,607 11 1 355,6i8 5 4 381,044 5 o 2i,433 17 10 273,658 12 2 285,972 5 4 15,957 15 8 Total 569,898 8 3 758,096 8 2 575,588 13 2 Expenditure. Maintenance Locomotive Repairs of Carriages and Wagons ... Traffic General Charges ... ... ... Sundries 130,913 5 4 99,948 10 4 20,348 17 1 134,256 5 10 18,757 16 11 1,670 18 7 I93>295 3 5 137,774 1 2 32,547 12 9 157,960 10 1 22,503 10 1 i,397 r7 6 J 54,S°3 10 8 111,990 12 4 25,423 7 3 116,258 15 7 20,520 12 8 1,587 4 o Total 405,895 14 1 545,478 !5 o 430,284 2 6 Peokt 164,002 14 2 212,617 '3 2 H5,304 10 8 Miles open for Traffic, average Number of Passengers Tonnage of Goods Train-miles Run Receipts per Mile of Railway open ... Receipts per Train-mile ... "Expenses per Train-mile ... Expenses per cent, of Receipts Average Capital invested on Lines open, inclusive of interest thereon from approximate date of commencing works to the opening of the lines for traffic ... Percentage on Capital furnished by the working of Lines Percentage of Deficit furnished out of Consolidated Revenue, assuming that the interest paid on the loan is 5 per cent. ... 955 m*i,542,695 864,947 1,904,374 £596 17s. 5d. 5s. nfd. 4s. 3d. £71 6s. sd. 1,095 m- 65 ch. t2,722,740 959,756 2,488,073 £691 18s. 3d. 6s. id. 4s. 4id. £71 18s. sd. 1,153 m. 18 ch. t2,3i3,i68 805,686 2,000,485 £648 16s. iod. 5s. 9 d. 4s. 3id. £74 15s. 2d. £7,284,106 2-25 £8,362,332 2'54 £8,629,402 i'69=2'25peran. 2'75 2'46 2-o6=2'75peran.