New Zealand Gazette – 1923 – No. 42

Page 1334

✨ Railway Financial Statistics

RAILWAY WORKING ACCOUNT, showing REVENUE and EXPENDITURE to the Termination of the Period ending
31st March, 1923.

Section.	Miles open.	Revenue.	Expenditure.	For a Twelve-monthly Period, Average to Date.
		Four-weekly.	Total to Date.	Four-weekly.
NORTH ISLAND,--Whangarei	80	£ 7,036 4 5	£ 73,963 9 0	£ 10,436 13 3
Kaihu	20	£ 911 16 9	£ 8,865 14 5	£ 599 5 1
Gisborne	49	£ 3,433 12 0	£ 38,301 7 7	£ 2,380 17 2
North Island Main Lines and Branches	1,140	£ 358,496 10 4	£ 3,888,546 18 8	£ 221,789 17 2
Total	1,289	£ 369,878 3 6	£ 4,009,677 9 8	£ 235,206 12 8
SOUTH ISLAND,--South Island Main Lines and Branches	1,429	£ 226,350 0 10	£ 2,834,586 3 10	£ 143,212 15 4
Westland	157	£ 13,986 6 8	£ 184,755 14 1	£ 12,837 19 0
Westport	36	£ 11,640 12 10	£ 125,242 16 10	£ 6,212 15 3
Nelson	61	£ 1,931 5 2	£ 23,823 10 5	£ 2,376 2 3
Picton	56	£ 3,915 11 10	£ 40,366 4 1	£ 3,370 3 10
Lake Wakatipu Steamers		£ 1,099 15 6	£ 9,350 7 11	£ 958 17 3
Total	1,739	£ 258,922 12 10	£ 2,718,124 17 2	£ 168,968 12 11
Grand total	3,028	£ 628,800 16 4	£ 6,727,802 6 10	£ 404,175 5 7

CORRESPONDING PERIOD LAST YEAR.

| NORTH ISLAND,--Whangarei | 80 | £ 6,573 2 9 | £ 70,199 19 1 | £ 10,180 10 2 | £ 80,870 2 6 | 115·20 | £ 877 10 0 | £ 1,010 17 6 |
| Kaihu | 20 | £ 886 5 2 | £ 9,907 18 0 | £ 1,063 16 9 | £ 10,851 0 2 | 109·52 | £ 495 7 11 | £ 542 11 0 |
| Gisborne | 49 | £ 3,506 5 6 | £ 44,260 19 1 | £ 2,434 10 7 | £ 38,534 6 11 | 87·06 | £ 903 5 9 | £ 786 8 4 |
| North Island Main Lines and Branches | 1,133 | £ 288,150 15 11 | £ 3,897,030 5 6 | £ 248,082 17 5 | £ 3,373,716 5 0 | 86·57 | £ 3,439 11 4 | £ 2,977 13 8 |
| Total | 1,282 | £ 299,116 9 4 | £ 4,021,399 1 8 | £ 261,761 14 11 | £ 3,503,971 14 7 | 87·13 | | |
| SOUTH ISLAND,--South Island Main Lines and Branches | 1,429 | £ 175,824 3 4 | £ 2,238,023 4 9 | £ 156,912 8 3 | £ 2,377,517 9 2 | 106·23 | £ 1,569 13 11 | £ 1,667 10 8 |
| Westland | 157 | £ 13,835 12 9 | £ 189,150 3 4 | £ 10,864 18 11 | £ 175,409 17 1 | 92·74 | £ 1,204 15 7 | £ 1,117 5 2 |
| Westport | 36 | £ 9,608 13 11 | £ 115,452 18 4 | £ 5,890 2 3 | £ 85,581 6 3 | 74·13 | £ 3,207 0 6 | £ 2,377 5 2 |
| Nelson | 61 | £ 2,163 2 10 | £ 28,194 12 6 | £ 2,722 12 8 | £ 36,505 15 3 | 129·48 | £ 462 4 2 | £ 598 9 1 |
| Picton | 56 | £ 3,809 4 11 | £ 43,351 7 2 | £ 3,745 14 11 | £ 45,401 5 3 | 104·73 | £ 774 2 8 | £ 810 14 9 |
| Lake Wakatipu Steamers | | £ 729 17 7 | £ 8,019 6 4 | £ 1,397 14 0 | £ 13,339 2 7 | 166·34 | | |
| Total | 1,739 | £ 206,060 15 4 | £ 2,622,191 12 5 | £ 181,533 11 0 | £ 2,733,754 15 7 | 104·25 | | |
| Grand total | 3,021 | £ 505,177 4 8 | £ 6,643,590 14 1 | £ 443,295 5 11 | £ 6,237,726 10 2 | 93·89 | | |

ESTIMATED Cost of CONSTRUCTION of RAILWAYS, ROLLING-STOCK, ETC., to 31st March, 1922, as furnished by Public Works Department and by Greymouth and Westport Harbour Boards respectively.

Section.	Cost of Opened Lines.	Cost of Unopened Lines.
Whangarei	£ 877,244 0 0	£ 480,032 0 0
Kaihu	£ 100,265 0 0	£ 74,650 0 0
Tauranga	£ 791,244 0 0	£ 420,322 0 0
Gisborne	£ 688,378 0 0	£ 420,322 0 0
North Island Main Lines and Branches	£ 17,725,193 0 0	£ 1,781,110 0 0
South Island Main Lines and Branches	£ 15,377,595 0 0	£ 131,101 0 0
Westland	£ 2,206,551 0 0	£ 1,141,852 0 0
Westport	£ 606,005 0 0	£ 95,862 0 0
Nelson	£ 444,781 0 0	£ 62,027 0 0
Picton	£ 684,686 0 0	£ 19,283 0 0
Lake Wakatipu Steamer Service	£ 43,708 0 0	£ 0 0 0
In Suspense—Surveys, North Island	£ 38,443 0 0	£ 0 0 0
Miscellaneous, North Island	£ 5,169 0 0	£ 0 0 0
Surveys, South Island	£ 5,763 0 0	£ 0 0 0
Miscellaneous, South Island	£ 5,168 0 0	£ 0 0 0
P.W.D. Stock of Permanent-way	£ 261,306 0 0	£ 0 0 0
W.R.D. Stock of A.O.L. and R.I.A. Stores	£ 554,691 0 0	£ 67,319 0 0
Balance of cost of raising loan of £1,000,000 for Railways Improvement Authorization Act, 1914, Account	£ 0 0 0	£ 0 0 0
Totals	£ 39,309,097 0 0	£ 5,380,651 0 0