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Table No 21. Return showing the Capital Cost, Working-expenses, and Revenue of the Telephone Exchanges, Year by Year, from the Date of their Establishment.

J 4 Capital Cost for Instruments, Wire, Poles, Labour, Freight, Superintendence, &c. Working-expenses. Year. Annual Rate at Close of Year. Balance of Revenue over Workingexpenses. Annual Rate per Cent. yielded on Capital Cost. Average Cost of Total for all each Con- Connections nection. Salaries and Linemen, ! *Wear-and- T ? e ,?*>.£ ue1 ' Allowances of Batteries, and tear, &c, ;; a P er > Clerks, &c. Materials. Ten per Cent. B - ™ gf; Total. Total for the year ended 31st March, — 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 116 379 715 1,075 1 710 2,038 2,153 2 249 2,402 2,587 3,080 3,690 4,244 4,616 £ s. d. 21 16 6 21 16 6 21 16 6 21 18 6 20 8 6 19 19 5 22 19 0 23 18 10 24 4 1 24 17 1 24 16 11 24 16 11 24 12 1 25 6 3 £ s. d. 2,531 14 0 8,271 13 6 15,604 17 6 23,461 17 6 37 319 12 1 40,686 3 1 J 49,407 5 0 I 53,849 11 6 58,229 3 0 ] 64,294 4 4 i 76,579 1 8 j 91,687 11 1 104,425 3 0 116,845 10 4 £ s. d. 613 5 2 5,014 9 2 7 746 16 7 10,008 3 6 12,294 1 2 15,477 16 2 16,881 8 6 17,613 4 0 18,581 11 7 19 961 4 2 18,571 7 8 19 155 11 5 21 771 4 4 f21 552 12 10 & s. d. 1 170 16 0 6,809 8 8 7,028 7 4 10,008 3 6 13 997 0 0 15,477 16 2 16,881 8 6 17,613 4 0 18,581 11 7 19 961 4 2 18,571 7 8 19,155 11 5 21 771 4 4 22,621 0 0 £ s. d. 285 0 0 595 0 0 695 0 0 1 770 0 0 2,849 1 3 2,873 0 0 3,119 10 0 3 315 10 0 3 790 0 0 4,192 0 0 4,630 0 0 7,405 0 0 7 720 0 0 9,285 0 0 £ s. d. 275 0 0 595 0 0 770 0 0 1 590 0 0 1 704 0 0 1,580 10 0 2.252 0 0 2,249 7 0 2,206 10 0 2,249 18 5 2,345 2 9 2,695 19 10 3,313 1 1 4.253 11 4 £ s. a. 253 0 0 827 0 0 1,560 0 0 2,346 0 0 3,731 19 2 4,068 12 2 4,940 14 6 5,344 9 2 5,823 0 1 6,429 8 5 7,658 7 11 9 168 15 1 10,442 10 4 11,684 11 0 £ s. d. 150 0 0 300 0 0 350 0 0 475 0 0 700 0 0 320 0 0 330 0 0 335 0 0 375 0 0 394 3 9 393 1 6 464 6 2 741 18 9 817 19 5 £ S. d. 963 0 0 2,317 0 0 3,375 0 0 6,181 0 0 8,985 0 5 8 842 2 2 10,642 4 6 11 244 6 2 12,194 10 1 13,265 10 7 15,026 12 2 19,734 1 1 22,217 10 2 26,041 1 9 £ s. d. 207 16 0 4,492 8 8 3,653 7 4 3,827 3 6 5,011 19 7 6,635 14 0 6,239 4 1 6,368 17 10 6,387 1 6 6,695 13 7 3,544 15 6 - 578 9 8 -446 5 10 -3,420 1 9 8-17 54-31 23-41 16-31 13-42 16-30 12-63 11-82 11-00 10-43 4-63 Loss. Loss. Loss. * This column includes 5 per cent, for wear-and-tear, and 5 per cent, for debenture capital, t A number of subscriptions due, but not paid, will fall into the year 1895-96.