New Zealand Gazette – 1921 – No. 46

Page 1161

✨ Railway Traffic and Financial Reports

MAY 12.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1161

N.Z.R.—FINANCIAL YEAR 1920-21.

COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF TRAFFIC ON ALL SECTIONS from 1st April, 1920, to 31st March, 1921.

All Sections.	First-class Passengers.		Second-class Passengers.		Total.	Season Tickets.
	S.	R.	S.	R.
1921	886,734	1,538,424	3,850,932	9,039,550	15,315,640	464,691
1920	853,888	1,138,272	3,930,274	6,838,380	12,760,814	400,621
Increase	32,846	400,152	..	2,201,170	2,554,826	64,070
Decrease	..	..	79,342	..	..	..

All Sections.	Cattle.	Calves.	Sheep.	Pigs.	Total.	Timber.	Minerals.	Other Goods.	Total.
	No.	No.	No.	No.	No.	Tons.	Tons.	Tons.	Tons.
1921	345,575	31,170	7,010,598	118,624	7,505,967	717,701	2,515,464	2,852,195	6,085,360
1920	326,425	31,551	7,209,246	107,310	7,674,532	611,171	2,300,760	2,685,301	5,597,232
Increase	19,150	..	..	11,314	..	106,530	214,704	166,894	488,128
Decrease	..	381	198,648	..	168,565	..	..	..	..

RAILWAY WORKING ACCOUNT, showing REVENUE and EXPENDITURE to the Termination of the Period ending 31st March, 1921.

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.
NORTH ISLAND,—		£ s. d.	£ s. d.	£ s. d.	£ s. d.		£ s. d.	£ s. d.
Whangarei	80	5,444 7 7	69,251 15 2	7,390 7 4	69,792 7 9	100·78	865 12 11	872 8 1
Kaihu	20	889 2 11	9,133 0 1	681 16 10	10,418 14 0	114·07	456 13 0	520 18 3
Gisborne ..	49	3,693 13 7	47,304 16 4	5,101 3 2	40,789 11 6	86·23	965 8 1	832 8 10
North Island Main Lines and Branches	1,133	332,443 17 1	4,009,296 4 2	250,839 7 9	3,005,399 13 11	74·96	3,538 13 1	2,652 12 1
Total	1,282	342,471 1 2	4,134,985 15 9	264,012 15 1	3,126,400 7 2	75·61
SOUTH ISLAND,—
South Island Main Lines and Branches	1,417	202,882 12 6	2,383,222 13 0	209,822 16 10	2,156,471 16 3	90·49	1,681 17 7	1,521 17 2
Westland ..	157	15,097 8 2	196,500 8 8	13,699 1 2	171,667 5 2	87·36	1,251 11 11	1,093 8 5
Westport .	36	6,722 2 10	101,507 16 10	4,344 18 3	83,703 1 5	82·48	2,819 0 3	2,325 1 8
Nelson ..	61	3,036 12 5	40,928 6 2	3,223 5 9	46,440 9 11	113·47	670 19 1	761 6 5
Picton ..	56	3,143 13 11	42,397 4 10	4,019 11 11	41,459 9 2	97·79	756 1 10	740 6 11
Lake Wakatipu Steamers	..	1,071 8 9	8,989 3 4	755 11 2	10,458 3 0	116·34	..	..
Total	1,727	231,953 18 7	2,773,545 12 10	235,865 5 1	2,510,200 4 11	90·51
• Grand total	3,009	574,424 19 9	6,908,531 8 7	499,878 0 2	5,636,600 12 1	81·59

CORRESPONDING PERIOD LAST YEAR.

NORTH ISLAND,—		£ s. d.	£ s. d.	£ s. d.	£ s. d.		£ s. d.	£ s. d.
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	14,235 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