New Zealand Gazette – 1920 – No. 46

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✨ Railway Traffic and Financial Reports

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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 46

N.Z.R.—FINANCIAL YEAR 1919-20.

COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF TRAFFIC ON ALL SECTIONS from 1st April, 1919, to 31st March, 1920.

All Sections.	First-class Passengers.		Second-class Passengers.		Total.	Season Tickets.
	S.	R.	S.	R.
1920	853,888	1,138,272	3,930,274	6,838,380	12,760,814	400,621
1919	723,281	785,666	3,850,702	6,014,872	11,374,521	351,124
Increase	130,607	352,606	79,572	823,508	1,386,293	49,497
Decrease	..	..	..	..	..	..

All Sections.	Cattle.	Calves.	Sheep.	Pigs.	Total.	Timber.	Minerals.	Other Goods.	Total.
	No.	No.	No.	No.	No.	Tons.	Tons.	Tons.	Tons.
1920	326,425	31,551	7,209,246	107,310	7,674,532	611,171	2,300,760	2,685,301	5,597,232
1919	311,592	34,952	6,568,032	123,728	7,038,304	487,729	2,444,007	2,306,721	5,238,457
Increase	14,833	..	641,214	..	636,228	123,442	..	378,580	358,775
Decrease	..	3,401	..	16,418	..	..	143,247	..	..

RAILWAY WORKING ACCOUNT, showing REVENUE and EXPENDITURE to the Termination of the Period ending 31st March, 1920.

Section.	Miles open for Traffic.	Revenue.		Expenditure.		For a Twelve-monthly Period, Average to Date.
		Four-weekly.	Total to Date.	Four-weekly.	Total to Date.	Per Cent. of Revenue.	Revenue per Mile of Railway.	Expenditure per Mile of Railway.
		£ s. d.	£ s. d.	£ s. d.	£ s. d.		£ s. d.	£ s. d.
NORTH ISLAND,—
Whangarei ..	74	5,888 5 0	60,858 1 10	4,875 9 10	52,373 13 10	86·06	822 8 1	707 15 0
Kaihu ..	20	845 17 6	6,487 14 10	955 9 10	9,957 16 1	153·49	324 7 9	497 17 10
Gisborne ..	49	3,554 8 3	39,236 15 1	3,251 4 4	31,813 5 9	81·08	800 15 0	649 5 0
North Island Main Lines and Branches	1,126	347,955 11 2	3,259,747 9 6	248,000 2 7	2,174,341 6 7	66·70	2,894 19 7	1,931 0 7
Total ..	1,269	358,244 1 11	3,366,330 1 3	257,082 6 7	2,268,486 2 3	67·39
SOUTH ISLAND,—
South Island Main Lines and Branches	1,417	222,379 2 0	2,054,204 9 5	177,573 14 8	1,551,928 16 11	75·55	1,459 4 2	1,102 8 4
Westland ..	157	14,295 3 4	159,322 16 6	10,080 7 8	139,458 0 0	87·53	1,014 15 11	888 5 4
Westport ..	36	7,654 19 5	90,138 10 9	4,757 5 0	63,689 2 5	70·66	2,503 17 0	1,769 2 10
Nelson ..	61	3,874 13 5	36,733 11 8	3,705 5 0	38,383 3 1	104·49	602 3 10	629 4 8
Picton ..	56	3,719 16 4	37,879 18 4	3,442 4 5	35,158 5 10	92·82	676 8 6	627 16 6
Lake Wakatipu Steamers	..	938 16 10	7,878 0 8	630 0 8	7,963 10 11	101·09	..	..
Total ..	1,727	252,802 11 4	2,386,157 7 4	200,188 17 5	1,836,580 19 2	76·97
Grand total ..	2,996	611,046 13 3	5,752,487 8 7	457,271 4 0	4,105,067 1 5	71·36

CORRESPONDING PERIOD LAST YEAR.

NORTH ISLAND,—		£ s. d.	£ s. d.	£ s. d.	£ s. d.		£ s. d.	£ s. d.
Whangarei ..	74	5,006 4 0	54,886 15 5	4,269 13 2	44,398 7 10	80·89	741 14 3	599 19 6
Kaihu ..	20	590 15 2	6,100 17 7	1,117 6 2	8,496 2 5	139·26	305 0 10	424 16 1
Gisborne ..	49	3,376 5 2	30,431 9 6	3,136 6 10	31,164 8 3	102·41	621 1 1	636 0 2
North Island Main Lines and Branches	1,126	273,314 3 1	2,848,826 14 4	167,873 13 2	1,728,709 10 11	60·68	2,530 0 10	1,535 5 4
Total ..	1,269	282,287 7 5	2,940,245 16 10	176,396 19 4	1,812,768 9 5	61·65
SOUTH ISLAND,—
South Island Main Lines and Branches	1,404	178,516 19 9	1,721,100 10 7	122,512 3 0	1,251,529 16 8	72·72	1,225 17 1	891 8 1
Westland ..	157	12,815 16 11	151,969 13 11	9,495 0 10	114,787 19 7	75·53	967 19 2	731 2 8
Westport ..	36	8,323 5 5	103,634 6 11	4,366 12 4	58,434 4 6	56·39	2,878 14 8	1,623 3 5
Nelson ..	61	3,410 16 3	34,635 15 11	3,074 8 1	33,442 7 10	96·55	567 16 0	548 4 9
Picton ..	56	3,175 13 4	30,363 14 5	3,284 3 11	30,626 13 1	100·87	542 4 2	546 18 1
Lake Wakatipu Steamers	..	902 17 4	6,682 8 0	657 19 7	6,984 19 4	104·53	..	..
Total ..	1,714	207,145 9 0	2,048,386 9 9	143,390 7 9	1,495,806 1 0	73·02
Grand total ..	2,983	489,432 16 5	4,988,632 6 7	319,787 7 1	3,308,574 10 5	66·32