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INDEX OF RETURNS ACCOMPANYING ANNUAL REPORT OF THE GENERAL MANAGER OF NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT RAILWAYS, 1898-99.

No. I. Summary of Revenue Accounts. 2. General Expenditure Account. 3. Detail of Classified Expenditure. 4. Classified Expenditure and Revenue, and Proportion of each Class to Mileage and Revenue. 5. Comparative Statement of Passenger and Goods Traffic. 6. Cost of Construction, Net Revenue, and Rate of Interest on Capital. 7. Expenditure under Vote "Additions to Open Lines" charged to Capital Account. 8. Comparison of Revenue and Expenditure for Nineteen Financial Years. 9. Statement of Season Tickets issued. 10. Classified Maintenance Expenditure. 11. Return of Passenger Bookings at Excursion Fares. 12. Revenue and Expenditure of Stations. 13. Carriage and Wagon Stock, and Tarpaulins. 14. Locomotive Stock. 15. Comparative Statement of Mileage, Capital Cost, Earnings, and Expenditure on Colonial Railways. 16. Comparative Statement of Mileage, Capital Cost, Earnings, Expenditure, and Traffic, New Zealand Government Railways. 17. Stores Contracts. 18. Weighing-machines, Weighbridges, Traversers and Turntables, Cranes, &c, and Water-services. 19. Renewals of Rails. 20. Renewals and Removals of Sleepers. 21. Number of Stations and Private Sidings. 22. Mileage of Railways open for Traffic and under Maintenance. 23. Weights of Rails in various Lines. 24. Particulars of Private-siding Traffic. 25. Sleepers Laid and Removed eacli Year. 26. Number of Employes. 27. Accidents. 28. Locomotive Returns. 29. Traffic from Coal-mines, Hurunui-Bluff. 30. Vessels Loaded and Discharged at Different Ports, Hurunui-Bluff. 31. Mileage of Track, Main Line and Sidings, Hurunui-Bluff. 32. Alterations and Additions in Scale of Charges.

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