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RETURN No. 8. Comparison of Traffic Revenue and Expenditure for the last Nineteen Financial Years.

RETURN No. 9. Statement of Season Tickets issued for the Year ended 31st March, 1899.

A. C. Fife, Eailway Accountant,

Year. Expenditure Miles. 1 Revenue. Expenditure per Cent, of Tonnage. Revenue. Parcels, Horses, and Dogs. Cattle, Sheep, and Passengers. Pigs. Season Tickets. £ 836,454 892,026 953,347 961,304 1,045712 1,047.419 998,768 994,843 997.6i5 1,095,570 1,121,701 1,115,432 1,181,522 1,172,793 1,150,851 1,183,041 1,286,158 1,376,008 1,469,665 £ 521,957 523,099 592,821 655,990 690,026 690,340 699,072 687,328 647,045 682,787 700,703 706,57 732,142 735,359 732,160 751,368 789,054 857,191 929737 No. 286,865 316,611 341,186 359.896 347.42S 349,428 372,397 399.109 399.056 405,838 413,074 430,216 460,383 486,787 479,683 489,177 S24.063 563,998 624,683 No. No. 2,849,561 2,9".477 3.283.378 3,272,644 3,232,886 3,362,266 3,426,403 3.451.850 3,132,803 3,376,459 3,433.629 3.555764 3.7S9.044 3,972,701 3,905,578 4,162,426 4,439,387 4,672,264 4,955,553 No. 6,499 7,207 8,621 9.036 8,999 10,717 11,821 ",518 11,817 12,311 13,881 16,341 16,504 17,226 28,623 36,233 43.069 48,660 55.027 1880-81 1881-82 1882-83 1883-84 1884-85 1885-86 1886-87 1887-88 1888-89 1889-90 1890-91 1891-92 1892-93 1893-94 1894-95 1895-96 1896-97 1897-98 1898-99 1,277 I.3I9 1,358 1,396 1,477 1,613 1,727 i,758 i,777 1,809 1,842 1,869 1,886 1,948 i,993 2,014 2,018 2,055 2,090 62*40 58-64 62-18 68-24 6S-99 65-91 69-99 69-09 64-86 62-32 62-47 63-34 61-97 62 70 63-62 63*Si 6r35 62-30 63*26 1,377,783 1,437.714 1,564793 1,700,040 1,749,856 1.823,767 1,747.754 173S.762 1,920,431 2,073,955 2,086,011 2,066,791 2,193,330 2,060,645 2,048,391 2,087,798 2,368,927 2,518,367 2,624,059 300,704 343.751 477.07S 686,287 729,528 858,662 942,017 940,209 919,392 1,068,575 1,348,364 i,iS3,Soi i,393,4S7 1,433,679 1,604,103 1,932,709 2,052,346 2,444,314 2,608,623

Description. No. Amount. tickets, all lines... travellers' tickets, North Island i'ravellers' tickets, Middle Island leporters' tickets, North Island importers' tickets, Middle Island Jurists' tickets, all lines ... tourists' tickets, North Island tourists' tickets, Middle Island fifty-trip com. ordinary fifty-trip com. family Ichool ... teachers' Saturday twenty-trip com twelve-trip workmen's ill other season tickets 9 72 122 26 32 168 55 45 2,563 1,454 8,042 315 241 36,357 5,526 £ s. 566 10 2,603 10 6,263 0 260 11 320 0 1,391 0 291 10 276 0 1,729 12 2,168 2 4,429 0 358 2 152 7 5,985 7 10,391 1 d. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0 1 0 4 0 0 Totals 55,027 37,185 12 11