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RETURN No. 16. Return showing the Mileage, Capital Cost, Traffic, Revenue, and Expenditure of the New Zealand Government Railways from 1st April, 1914, to 31st March, 1920. MILEAGE, CAPITAL COST, TRAFFIC, AND REVENUE.

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Year. Miles. Capital Cost. I T] Passengers. Season Tickets. Coaching. Sheep. Pigs. No. Revenue No. | Revenue. | Revenue. 1914-1915 1915-1916 1916-1917 1917-1918 1918-1919 1919-1920 2,955 2,970 2,970 2,993 2,y93 3,006 £ 31,133,825 34,857,882 35,378,664 36,001,432 36,167,681 36,390,115 9,383,420 9,356,522 9,146,331 7,468,646 7,477,583 7,408,608 13,565,772 14,201,506 14,173,115 11,408,156 11,374,521 12,760,814 £ 1,329,233 1.566,380 -1,717,847 1,663,922 1,799,381 2,138,391 302,912 330.622 355, 832 322,487 35 i,124 400,621 £ 153,150 156,322 155,201 138,675 150,901 165,596 £ 227,521 236,705 243,832 254,110 258,524 290,453 No. 314,219 371,529 402, 769 362,134 346,544 357,976 No. 6,923,306 7,204,826 7,106,174 6,356,361 6,568,032 7,209,246 No. 163,155 182,443 163,370 145, 729 123,728 107, 310 Year. Timber. Minerals. Other Goods. Total. Goods Revenue. I Miscellaneous Revenue. Rents and Commission. Total Revenue. Revenue per Train-mile. 1914-1915 1915-1916 1916-1917 1917-1918 1918-1919 1919-1920 ! Tons. 621,963 625,866 579,428 523,784 487,729 611,171 Tons. 2,988,028 2,831,959 2,787,523 2,572,576 - 2,444,007 2,300,760 Tons. 2,466,836 2,504,439 si,459, 314 2,276,776 2,306,721 2,685,301 Tons. 6,076,827 5,962,264 5,826,265 5,373,136 5,238,457 5,597,232 £ 2,249,399 2,423,493 2,498,862 2,465,241 2,608,336 2.956,237 £ 69,646 81,391 98,473 73,761 78,828 105,072 i £ 76,508 S4,065 86,595 86,991 92,662 96,738 £ 4,105,457 4,548,356 4,800,810 4,687,700 4,988,632 5,752,487 1 d. 104-75 116-50 125-75 150-50 160-00 186-00 EXPENDITURE. Year. Expenditure Expenditure per per Cent. Train-mile. of Revenue. Maintenance of Way. Amount. Locomotive Power. Per Cent, of j Per Revenue. I Train-mile. I Amount. Carriages and W T agons. Per Cent, of Per Revenue. Train-mile. Amount. Per Cent, of Revenue. Per Mile of Railway. Per Train-mile. 1914-1915 1915-1916 1916-1917 1917-1918 1918-1919 1919-1920 d. 74-54 74-50 76-63 97-54 105-97 132-72 71-14 64-00 60-97 64-91 66-32 71-36 738,550 740,349 720,840 710,655 752,558 837,910 £ 17-99 16-30 15-04 15-18 15-10 14-59 £ 254-02 25100 243-52 239-54 252-28 280-54 d. 18-89 18-99 18-92 22-84 24-16 27-14 £ 954,868 934,737 937,780 962,222 1,075,439 1 1,397,993 £ 23-26 20-58 19-56 20 56 21-59 24-34 d. 24-42 23-98 24-61 30-92 34-52 45-29 £ 228,145 225,968 238,868 283,248 306,308 387,498 £ 5-56 4-98 4-98 6-05 6-15 6-74 d. 5-84 5-79 6-27 9-10 9-83 12-55 I Year. Amount. Traffic. Per Cent, of Per Revenue. Train-mile. I I. Traffic. Head and Amount. Head and Departmental Offices. 1 Departmental Offices. Lake Wakatipu Steamers. — i 1 Total Per Cent, of Per . . Per Cent, of Expenditure. Revenue, j Train-mile. Amount. Eevenue. 1914-1915 1915-1916 1916-1917 1917-1918 1918-1919 1919-1920 £ 870,392 889,991 904,318 954,142 1,032,609 1,301,935 £ 21-2 19-60 18-87 20-38 20-73 22-66 d. 22-26 22-83 23 73 30-66 33-14 42-17 £ 122,415 113,461 118,456 124.976 134,626 171,767 £ 2-98 2-50 2-47 2-67 2-70 2-99 d. 313 2-91 310 4-0-2 4-32 5-57 £ 6.085 6,377 6,602 7,664 6,985 7,964 £ 88-83 88 04 91-89 112-53 104-53 101-09 2.920,455 2,910.883 2,926,864 3,042,907 3,308,575 4,105,067