New Zealand Gazette – 1919 – No. 145

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✨ Railway Traffic and Financial Reports

Dec. 11.]

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

N.Z.R.-FINANCIAL YEAR 1919-20.

COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF TRAFFIC ON ALL SECTIONS from 1st April, 1919, to 8th November, 1919.

All Sections.	First-class Passengers.	Second-class Passengers.	Total.	Season Tickets.
S.	R.	S.	R.
1919	482,736	550,884	2,289,384	3,174,202
1918	410,393	458,370	2,305,423	3,625,394
Increase	72,343	92,514
Decrease			16,039	451,192

All Sections.	Cattle.	Calves.	Sheep.	Pigs.	Total.	Timber.	Minerals.	Other Goods.	Total.
No.	No.	No.	No.	No.	Tons.	Tons.	Tons.	Tons.
1919	165,234	15,215	2,979,363	52,227	3,212,039	338,311	1,424,475	1,599,278	3,362,064
1918	199,317	24,270	3,148,011	64,305	3,435,903	307,106	1,635,043	1,422,852	3,365,001
Increase						31,205		176,426
Decrease	34,083	9,055	168,648	12,078	223,864		210,568		2,937

RAILWAY WORKING ACCOUNT, showing REVENUE and EXPENDITURE to the Termination of the Period ending
8th November, 1919.

Section.	Miles open for Traffic.	Revenue.	Expenditure.	For a Twelve-monthly Period, Average to Date.
		Four-weekly.	Total to Date.	Four-weekly.
NORTH ISLAND,---		£ s. d.	£ s. d.	£ s. d.
Whangarei	74	4,176 10 11	36,082 7 11	3,660 15 7
Kaihu	20	451 17 6	3,459 3 11	784 10 8
Gisborne	49	2,729 11 4	21,463 5 5	2,040 5 1
North Island Main Lines and Branches	1,126	252,933 10 9	1,737,878 11 3	179,131 19
Total	1,269	260,291 10 6	1,798,883 8 6	185,617 10 5
SOUTH ISLAND,---
South Island Main Lines and Branches	1,404	144,700 11 8	1,132,140 1 2	120,091 16 2
Westland	157	10,797 15 9	93,486 9 9	10,715 7 1
Westport	36	6,032 12 3	58,491 12 8	4,983 5 0
Nelson	61	2,831 8 1	20,848 2 7	2,654 18 3
Picton	56	2,720 8 1	22,625 16 3	3,096 4 1
Lake Wakatipu Steamers		425 12 11	3,389 4 8	568 17 2
Total	1,714	167,508 8 9	1,330,961 7 1	142,110 7 9
Grand total	2,983	427,799 19 3	3,129,864 15 7	327,727 18 2

CORRESPONDING PERIOD LAST YEAR.

| NORTH ISLAND,--- | | £ s. d. | £ s. d. | £ s. d. | £ s. d. | £ s. d. | £ s. d. | £ s. d. |
| Whangarei | 74 | 3,707 3 10 | 34,388 8 1 | 3,215 14 7 | 25,993 8 2 | 75·59 | 755 3 0 | 570 16 0 |
| Kaihu | 20 | 420 10 4 | 3,727 18 3 | 655 13 1 | 4,948 8 11 | 132·74 | 302 17 10 | 402 1 3 |
| Gisborne | 49 | 2,115 0 2 | 16,421 1 2 | 2,284 6 3 | 18,805 2 1 | 114·52 | 544 11 6 | 623 12 9 |
| North Island Main Lines and Branches| 1,126 | 193,318 0 3| 1,658,997 19 0| 125,147 10 9| 1,025,103 17 9| 61·79 | 2,394 4 0 | 1,479 7 10 |
| Total | 1,269 | 199,560 14 7| 1,713,535 6 6| 131,303 4 8| 1,074,850 16 11| 62·73 | | |
| SOUTH ISLAND,--- | | | | | | | | |
| South Island Main Lines and Branches| 1,404 | 115,679 14 5| 1,005,896 3 5| 88,504 3 11 | 736,257 15 10| 73·19 | 1,164 4 7 | 852 3 0 |
| Westland | 157 | 10,699 13 1| 96,954 11 10 | 8,128 4 0 | 68,570 13 11| 70·72 | 1,003 10 2 | 709 14 5 |
| Westport | 36 | 7,439 19 0 | 68,556 16 1 | 4,062 13 4 | 35,304 8 8 | 51·50 | 3,094 11 6 | 1,593 12 1 |
| Nelson | 61 | 2,803 7 3 | 19,887 19 3 | 2,175 16 8 | 19,803 13 4 | 99·58 | 529 15 10 | 527 11 2 |
| Picton | 56 | 1,847 14 5 | 18,023 8 11 | 1,984 8 4 | 17,463 5 0 | 96·89 | 523 0 1 | 506 14 11 |
| Lake Wakatipu Steamers | | 328 17 10 | 3,356 17 9 | 526 12 3 | 3,912 0 7 | 116·54 | | |
| Total | 1,714 | 138,299 6 0| 1,212,675 17 3| 105,381 18 6| 881,311 17 4 | 72·67 | | |
| Grand total | 2,983 | 337,860 0 7| 2,926,211 3 9| 236,685 3 2| 1,956,162 14 3| 66·85 | | |