New Zealand Gazette – 1920 – No. 33

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✨ Railway Traffic and Financial Statistics

APRIL 1.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1025

N.Z.R.—FINANCIAL YEAR 1919-20.

COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF TRAFFIC ON ALL SECTIONS from 1st April, 1919, to 28th February, 1920.

All Sections.	First-class Passengers (S.)	First-class Passengers (R.)	Second-class Passengers (S.)	Second-class Passengers (R.)	Total	Season Tickets.
1920	772,847	1,017,288	3,595,712	6,080,388	11,466,235	356,694
1919	653,397	714,432	3,514,325	5,487,646	10,369,800	318,783
Increase	119,450	302,856	81,387	592,742	1,096,435	37,911
Decrease	..	..	..	..	..	..

All Sections.	Cattle (No.)	Calves (No.)	Sheep (No.)	Pigs (No.)	Total (No.)	Timber (Tons)	Minerals (Tons)	Other Goods (Tons)	Total (Tons)
1920	283,556	25,494	5,767,427	93,024	6,169,501	546,860	2,091,919	2,411,069	5,019,848
1919	280,676	31,642	5,313,167	108,004	5,733,489	437,824	2,241,105	2,064,665	4,743,614
Increase	2,880	..	454,260	..	436,012	109,036	..	346,384	306,234
Decrease	..	6,148	..	14,980	..	..	149,186	..	..

RAILWAY WORKING ACCOUNT, showing REVENUE and EXPENDITURE to the Termination of the Period ending 28th February, 1920.

Section.	Miles open for Traffic.	Revenue Four-weekly (£ s. d.)	Revenue Total to Date (£ s. d.)	Expenditure Four-weekly (£ s. d.)	Expenditure Total to Date (£ s. d.)	Per Cent. of Revenue.	Revenue per Mile of Railway (£ s. d.)	Expenditure per Mile of Railway (£ s. d.)
NORTH ISLAND,—
Whangarei	74	4,901 10 4	54,969 16 10	4,178 0 11	47,498 4 0	86.41	804 14 9	695 7 1
Kaihu	20	745 6 2	5,641 17 4	863 6 11	9,002 6 3	159.56	305 12 0	487 12 6
Gisborne	49	3,513 5 11	35,682 6 10	2,843 8 7	28,562 1 5	80.05	788 17 11	631 9 6
North Island Main Lines and Branches	1,126	303,703 0 10	2,911,791 18 4	177,580 12 7	1,926,341 4 0	66.16	2,801 9 2	1,853 6 11
Total	1,269	312,863 3 3	3,008,085 19 4	185,465 9 0	2,011,403 15 8	66.87	..	..
SOUTH ISLAND,—
South Island Main Lines and Branches	1,417	181,844 19 6	1,831,825 7 5	125,449 17 11	1,374,355 2 3	75.03	1,410 9 0	1,058 4 3
Westland	157	13,453 11 10	145,087 13 2	10,436 19 10	129,377 12 4	89.17	1,001 2 8	892 14 8
Westport	36	6,548 10 1	82,483 11 4	4,697 5 7	58,931 17 5	71.45	2,482 2 10	1,773 8 3
Nelson	61	3,286 19 2	32,858 18 3	3,043 2 10	34,677 18 1	105.54	583 11 2	615 17 3
Picton	56	3,559 7 9	34,160 2 0	2,436 16 3	31,716 1 5	92.85	660 16 8	613 11 1
Lake Wakatipu Steamers	..	912 1 5	6,939 3 10	648 16 7	7,333 10 3	105.68	..	..
Total	1,727	209,605 9 9	2,133,354 16 0	146,712 19 0	1,636,392 1 9	76.71	..	..
Grand total	2,996	522,468 13 0	5,141,440 15 4	332,178 8 0	3,647,795 17 5	70.95	..	..

CORRESPONDING PERIOD LAST YEAR.

Section.	Miles open for Traffic.	Revenue Four-weekly (£ s. d.)	Revenue Total to Date (£ s. d.)	Expenditure Four-weekly (£ s. d.)	Expenditure Total to Date (£ s. d.)	Per Cent. of Revenue.	Revenue per Mile of Railway (£ s. d.)	Expenditure per Mile of Railway (£ s. d.)
NORTH ISLAND,—
Whangarei	74	4,749 5 10	49,880 11 5	3,866 6 11	40,128 14 8	80.45	730 4 8	587 9 5
Kaihu	20	608 11 8	5,510 2 5	586 12 5	7,378 16 3	133.92	298 9 4	399 13 7
Gisborne	49	2,878 8 11	27,055 4 4	2,599 4 4	28,028 1 5	103.60	598 3 2	619 13 4
North Island Main Lines and Branches	1,126	277,942 2 6	2,575,512 11 3	142,146 5 5	1,560,835 17 9	60.62	2,477 18 5	1,502 0 9
Total	1,269	286,178 8 11	2,657,958 9 5	149,198 9 1	1,636,371 10 6	61.57	..	..
SOUTH ISLAND,—
South Island Main Lines and Branches	1,404	169,543 9 11	1,542,583 10 10	109,481 5 0	1,129,017 13 8	73.19	1,190 5 4	871 3 1
Westland	157	11,050 11 6	139,153 17 6	9,262 2 0	105,292 18 9	75.67	960 3 10	726 10 10
Westport	36	9,789 19 8	95,311 1 6	5,012 17 4	54,067 12 2	56.73	2,868 3 2	1,627 0 8
Nelson	61	3,450 8 10	31,224 19 8	2,995 16 4	30,367 19 9	97.26	554 10 10	539 6 5
Picton	56	2,937 4 4	27,188 1 1	2,808 1 8	27,342 9 2	100.57	525 19 2	528 18 11
Lake Wakatipu Steamers	..	689 17 5	5,779 10 8	684 11 8	6,326 19 9	109.47	..	..
Total	1,714	197,461 11 8	1,841,241 0 9	130,244 14 0	1,352,415 13 3	73.45	..	..
Grand total	2,983	483,639 19 9	4,499,199 10 2	279,443 3 1	2,988,787 3 4	66.43	..	..