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TABLE No. 22. Table showing the Capital Cost, Working-expenses, and Revenue of the Telephone Exchanges, Year by Year, from the Date of their Establishment.

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h Capital Cost for Instruments, Wire, Poles, Labour, Freight, Superintendence, &c. Working-expenses. Year. Salaries and Allowances of Clerks, &c. Total. Balance of Revenue over Workingexpenses. Annual Kate per Cent. yielded on Capital Cost is Average Cost of each Connection. Total for all Connections. „,.„. ,„ Kent, Fuel, Materials Wear-and- Light, Paper, t i« tear > *c-* Printing, Linemen. Binding, &c. Total for the year ended 31st March, — 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 .. 1910 1911 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 5,143 5,747 5,787 6,203 7,150 8,210 9,260 10,633 12,105 14,423 15,333 17,403 20,402f 22,815f 25,212t 28,093 £ 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 24 6 6 23 7 4 24 11 6 24 5 3 22 14 1 21 9 7 20 18 0 20 2 6 19 19 8 21 19 7 23 13 9 24 2 2 24 18 4 25 18 9 27 2 7 27 17 8 £ e. d. £ s. d. 2,531 14 0 613 5 2 8,271 13 6 5,014 9 2 15,604 17 6 7,746 16 7 23,461 17 6 K>,008 3 6 37,319 12 1 12,294 1 2 40.686 3 1 15,477 16 2 49,407 5 0 16,881 8 6 53,849 11 6 17,613 4 0 58,229 3 0 18,581 11 7 64,294 4 4 19,961 4 2 76,579 1 8 18,571 7 8 91.687 11 1 19,155 11 5 104,425 3 0 21,771 4 4 116,845 10 4 21,552 12 10 125,108 4 1 25,933 12 9 134,299 11 4 29,248 19 5 142,218 11 8 36,422 6 8 150,490 18 9 39,718 7 7 162,333 1 2 43,303 2 10 176,349 1 8 49,117 0 8 193,511 6 2 55,542 4 9 213,966 10 8 62,151 8 11 241,903 2 6 71,028 6 3 295,029 7 2 79,061 7 4 363,192 6 9 89,542 1 5 420,088 12 1 100,814 1 3 508,408 7 8 116,852 13 10 591,760 0 7 131,249 0 7 683,986 11 1 144,298 2 9 783,382 15 4 161,173 6 10 £ s. d. 285 0 0 595 0 0 695 0 0 j ' 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 9,686 0 10 12,306 9 7 14,181 18 0 15,030 7 1 15,710 13 2 16,304 6 3 :18,448 3 5 '20,885 13 3 23,359 8 3 25,121 16 1 126,506 16 5 i32,913 16 8 138,107 12 8 :47,224 7 0 52,315 1 8 54,818 13 10 £ s. d. £ s. u. £ s. d. 275 0 0 253 0 0 150 0 0 595 0 0 827 0 0 300 0 0 770 0 0 1,560 0 0; 350 0 0 1,590 0 0 2,346 0 0 , 475 0 0 1,704 0 0 3,731 19 2 700 0 0 1,580 10 0 4,068 12 2 320 0 0 2.252 0 0 4,940 14 6 330 0 0 2,249 7 0 i 5,344 9 2 335 0 0 2,206 10 0 5,823 0 1 375 0 0 2,249 18 5 6,429 8 5 394 3 9 2,345 2 9 7,658 7 11 393 1 6 2,695 19 10 9,168 15 1 464 6 2 3,313 1 1 10,442 10 4 741 18 9 4.253 11 4 11,684 11 0 817 19 5 5,303 11 9 12,510 16 5 1,952 8 3 7,398 0 10 13,429 19 1 1,856 13 2 11,834 2 11 7,110 18 7 1,881 11 11 16,190 4 0 7,524 10 11 1,861 2 3 20,847 13 6 8,116 13 0 1,892 10 8 18,225 18 9 8,817 9 0 2,000 15 10 20,570 0 9 ' 9,675 11 9 2,078 12 10 22,078 4 11 ilO,698 6 6 2,614 15 0 22,507 9 10 12,095 3 1 2,986 3 8 26,781 19 6 14,751 9 4 4,447 18 4 22,576 6 8 18,159 12 4 |5,270 0 9 26,145 3 4 21,004 8 7 16,162 18 1 36.813 9 6 25,420 8 5 6,902 8 6 32,995 2 4 29,588 0 0 7,264 18 5 28,755 11 11 34,199 6 7 7,740 18 1 39.814 5 4 39,169 2 9 8,031 0 7 £ 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 29,452 17 3 34,991 2 8 35,008 11 5 40,606 4 3 46,567 10 4 45,348 9 10 ! 50,772 8 9 56,276 19 8 60,948 4 10 71,103 3 3 72,512 16 2 86,226 6 8 107,243 19 1 117,072 7 9 123,010 18 3 141,833 2 6 £ 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 -3,519 4 6 -5,742 3 3 1,413 15 3 -887 16 8 -3,264 7 6 3.768 10 10 4.769 16 0 5,874 9 3 10,080 1 5 7,958 4 1 17,029 5 3 14,587 14 7 9,608 14 9 14,176 12 10 21,287 4 6 19,340 4 4 8-17 54-31 2341 16-31 13-42 16-30 12-63 11-82 1100 1043 4 63 Loss. Loss. Loss. Loss. Lose. 0-99 Loss. Loss. 2-14 2-46 2-75 4-17 2-69 4-69 3 47 1-89 2-40 3-11 2-46 I I I * This column includes 5 per cent, for wear-anrj-tear, and 5 per cent, for debenture capital, except in 1897-98 and following years, in which only 5 per cent, for debenture capital is included, extensions were included for these three years. t In former return: