← Page 287

New Zealand Gazette – 1889 – No. 14

Page 288

Page 289 →

✨ Railway Statistics and Costs

288

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 14

COMPARATIVE STATEMENT of TRAFFIC ON ALL SECTIONS, from 1st April, 1888, to 2nd February, 1889.

All Sections.

Passengers.

Season
Tickets.

Parcels.

Number.

First Class.
Second Class.
Total.
Total.

S.
R.
S.
R.

Horses.
Car-
riages.
Dogs.
Total.
Dravs,
&c.
Cattle.
Calves.
Sheep.
Pigs.
Total.

1889 175,547 359,700 727,225 1,362,382 2,624,854 9,939 311,574 6,918 542 16,764 335,798 432 23,828 1,577,667 510 41,417 734,764
1888 192,425 443,448 750,359 1,535,298 2,921,530 10,098 310,783 7,772 496 18,143 337,194 494 26,874 2,017 691,648 41,750 762,783
Inc. .. .. .. .. .. .. 791 46 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..
Dec. 16,878 83,748 23,134 172,916 -296,676 159 .. 854 .. 1,379 1,396 62 3,046 440 24,138 333 28,019

TONS.

All
Sections.

Chaff, &c.
Wool.
Firewood.
Timber.
Grain.
Merchandise.
Minerals.
Total.

Tons c. qr. Tons c. qr. Tons c. qr. Tons c. qr. Tons c. qr. Tons c. qr. Tons c. qr. Tons c. qr.

1889 21,315 0 0 61,637 4 0 56,115 0 0 133,868 6 0 380,249 12 0 292,170 1 0 679,835 5 0 1,625,190 8 0
1888 19,040 0 0 70,007 0 0 56,290 0 0 133,135 0 0 306,443 7 2 292,503 0 0 603,127 12 3 1,480,546 0 1
Increase 2,275 0 0 .. 175 0 0 733 6 0 73,806 4 2 .. 76,707 12 1 144,644 7 3
Decrease .. 8,369 16 0 .. .. .. .. 332 19 0 .. ..

APPROXIMATE Cost of CONSTRUCTION of ALL LINES to 31st March, 1888, including Expenditure on Harbour Works forming
Part of the Railway System.

Section.

Gross Cost of Opened
and
Unopened Lines.

Cost of
Opened Lines.

£ s. d.
£ s. d.

Kawakawa
90,069 0 0
90,069 0 0
Whangarei-Kamo
69,721 0 0
69,721 0 0
Auckland
1,920,471 0 0
1,807,971 0 0
Main Trunk Line, North Island
135,501 0 0
..
Napier
688,052 0 0
659,892 0 0
Wellington
1,015,730 0 0
966,386 0 0
Wanganui
1,403,041 0 0
1,403,041 0 0
Wellington-Manawatu
41,798 0 0
..
Surveys, North Island
20,229 0 0
..
Miscellaneous
5,169 0 0
..
Hurunui-Bluff
8,014,655 0 0
7,574,218 0 0
Greymouth
211,073 0 0
195,114 0 0
Greymouth-Hokitika
69,389 0 0
..
Grey Harbour Works
127,234 0 0
..
Westport
222,894 0 0
222,894 0 0
Westport Harbour Works
14,111 0 0
..
Nelson
177,678 0 0
165,178 0 0
Picton
228,959 0 0
198,494 0 0
Surveys, Middle Island
37,094 0 0
..
Miscellaneous
5,169 0 0
..
Stock
105,072 0 0
..
Total
14,603,109 0 0
13,352,978 0 0

Railway Department, 5th March, 1889.

A. C. FIFE,
Accountant, New Zealand Railways.

VUW Te Waharoa — NZ Gazette 1889, No 14

In 1865 Parliament moved to Wellington and sat in the Wellington Provincial Council Chambers (depicted). Gradually expanded into a larger complex of buildings, it was replaced by the General Assembly Library in 1899

✨ LLM interpretation of page content

🚂 Continuation of New Zealand Railways Traffic Returns by Section (continued from previous page)

Domain🚂 Transport & Communications
Dated5 March 1889
KeywordsRailways, Traffic Returns, Construction Costs, Financial Data, Statistics
👩‍💼 Officials

A. C. Fife, Accountant, New Zealand Railways

As the Gazette has been published for more than 185 years, copyright status depends on the publication date of each issue:

1840–1925 (Public Domain): Issues of the New Zealand Gazette and Provincial Gazettes from this period are in the public domain, as the term of Crown copyright (100 years) has expired. Mechanical reproductions (e.g., scanned PDFs) of these public domain documents do not attract new copyright.
1926–1999 (Crown Copyright): Issues from this period remain subject to Crown copyright. Usage of these issues in this project is "Fair Dealing" for research purposes and consistent with the spirit of the open-access principles championed by NZGOAL, ie, "The default licensing position under ... NZGOAL is the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence ... [t]o the greatest extent possible, agencies should apply this licence to copyright material on their websites"
2000–Present (CC-BY 3.0 NZ): Gazette issues published on gazette.govt.nz are Crown copyright but are explicitly licensed by the Department of Internal Affairs under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand licence (CC-BY 3.0 NZ). This project redistributes this content in accordance with those terms.

Nothing in this project is intended to infringe copyright, trademark law or personal privacy. Please contact me immediately if you have any concerns.

Third-Party Content

Where third-party content (e.g., notices submitted by external organisations) is identified within the Gazette, users should satisfy themselves regarding the copyright status of that specific content, as it may be subject to different ownership terms than the Gazette itself.

Sources and Attribution

NZ Gazette Sources

The primary sources for the issues of the NZ Gazette indexed by this project are:

New Zealand Gazette Archive, provided by Victoria University Library, copyright 2008 LexisNexis NZ Limited, Crown Copyright of New Zealand Gazette Office
- Issues from 1841-2008, including the New Munster, New Ulster, and Provincial Gazettes
New Zealand Gazettes by New Zealand Legal Information Institute (note: "NZLII is not the copyright owner in the source documents published on NZLII")
- Issues from 1913-1999
Gazette.govt.nz, Crown copyright / licensed by the Department of Internal Affairs under CC-BY 3.0 NZ
- Issues from 2000-2017

Additional Sources

Wellington City Recollect have made available a comprehensive and excellent-quality scan of the Wellington Provincial Gazette which was used to fill in a number of issues missing from Victoria University's Gazette Archive; in particular, all 1856 issues, issues 22-34 for 1864 and issues 9-19 for 1870.
27 issues of The New Zealand Advertiser and Bay of Islands Gazette (1840) were sourced from Papers Past (public domain).
Gazette Extraordinary No. 1 (1840), held at the Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. Imaged by Luke Howison at the National Library reading rooms; PDF released into the public domain.

PDF Icon

The PDF PDF Icon was made by Good Ware, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Masthead

The logo in the header is an edited version of “Winning Coat of Arms Competition Entry, 1908” by Archives New Zealand, CC BY 2.0 (found via Wikipedia).

Who made this?

I'm Luke Howison, a freelance web developer with an interest in genealogy. I have created several websites for genealogical research, such as NZ Ancestor Search Helper.

New Zealand Gazette Index