New Zealand Gazette – 1923 – No. 80

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✨ Railway Financial and Construction Statistics

Nov. 15.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2829

RAILWAY WORKING ACCOUNT, showing REVENUE and EXPENDITURE to the Termination of the Period ending 13th October, 1923.

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 ..	80	6,525 2 9	43,991 19 8	9,032 6 10	55,619 9 8	126·43	1,021 4 10	1,291 3 4
Kaihu ..	24	485 12 8	4,085 0 4	682 14 5	5,297 4 10	129·68	316 4 0	409 18 1
Gisborne ..	49	2,950 3 11	19,869 16 8	3,023 5 6	17,593 0 9	90·83	734 2 8	666 15 10
North Island Main Lines and Branches	1,151	287,562 10 4	1,955,685 10 9	215,125 10 7	1,516,174 15 5	77·53	3,172 16 8	2,459 15 9
Total ..	1,304	297,523 9 8	2,023,132 7 5	227,863 17 4	1,594,684 10 8	78·82
SOUTH ISLAND,—
South Island Main Lines and Branches	1,429	164,307 7 1	1,168,704 5 5	159,518 15 10	1,093,408 1 3	93·56	1,518 17 2	1,421 0 1
Westland ..	159	17,644 14 8	113,517 0 3	20,232 15 10	116,076 1 0	102·25	1,339 2 7	1,369 6 5
Westport ..	36	3,100 19 3	67,559 15 9	6,202 2 5	43,926 3 4	65·02	3,485 4 6	2,266 0 8
Nelson ..	61	1,904 8 0	11,776 7 2	2,638 16 3	15,804 0 3	134·01	358 10 8	481 3 0
Picton ..	56	2,901 17 0	18,310 7 6	2,741 7 10	23,315 16 2	127·34	607 4 8	773 4 6
Lake Wakatipu Steamers ..		544 9 8	3,777 17 3	873 16 4	5,465 9 9	144·67	..	..
Total ..	1,741	190,403 15 8	1,383,645 13 4	192,207 14 6	1,297,995 11 9	93·81
Grand total	3,045	487,927 5 4	3,406,778 0 9	420,071 11 10	2,892,680 2 5	84·91

CORRESPONDING PERIOD LAST YEAR.

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 ..	80	4,775 4 9	35,169 10 2	5,015 4 0	45,351 18 4	128·95	816 8 9	1,052 16 3
Kaihu ..	20	666 12 0	3,869 15 0	521 11 6	4,969 3 2	128·41	359 6 8	461 8 5
Gisborne ..	49	2,234 16 9	18,006 13 4	2,336 9 10	19,832 5 7	110·14	682 9 4	751 13 2
North Island Main Lines and Branches	1,141	268,223 8 0	1,861,327 7 11	221,533 10 2	1,625,361 13 2	87·32	3,034 2 9	2,649 9 10
Total ..	1,290	275,900 1 6	1,918,373 6 5	229,406 15 6	1,695,515 0 3	88·38
SOUTH ISLAND,—
South Island Main Lines and Branches	1,429	148,155 14 10	1,176,528 10 11	156,968 18 6	1,170,601 1 5	99·49	1,529 1 9	1,521 6 6
Westland ..	157	13,791 7 11	99,304 1 7	12,088 18 4	86,800 2 8	87·41	1,174 13 3	1,026 15 1
Westport ..	36	8,552 2 8	68,449 7 9	6,118 4 4	40,353 3 10	58·96	3,531 2 5	2,081 14 3
Nelson ..	61	1,670 13 8	11,834 5 1	2,416 2 6	17,127 8 8	144·73	360 5 10	521 8 10
Picton ..	56	2,956 13 7	20,807 3 9	3,324 11 8	21,255 8 4	102·15	690 0 8	704 18 0
Lake Wakatipu Steamers ..		477 12 2	4,024 0 3	936 0 11	8,243 15 1	204·86	..	..
Total ..	1,739	175,604 4 10	1,380,947 9 4	181,852 16 3	1,344,381 0 0	97·35
Grand total	3,029	451,504 6 4	3,299,320 15 9	411,259 11 9	3,039,896 0 3	92·14

ESTIMATED COST of CONSTRUCTION of RAILWAYS, ROLLING-STOCK, etc., to 31st March, 1923, as furnished by Public Works Department and by Greymouth and Westport Harbour Boards respectively.

Section.	Cost of Opened Lines.	Cost of Unopened Lines.
	£ s. d.	£ s. d.
Whangarei .. .. .. .. ..	898,357 0 0	534,958 0 0
Kaihu .. .. .. .. ..	100,503 0 0	87,650 0 0
Tauranga .. .. .. .. ..	..	938,344 0 0
Gisborne .. .. .. .. ..	694,683 0 0	623,763 0 0
North Island Main Lines and Branches ..	18,601,788 0 0	2,175,729 0 0
South Island Main Lines and Branches ..	15,782,936 0 0	197,748 0 0
Westland .. .. .. .. ..	2,268,816 0 0	1,483,099 0 0
Westport .. .. .. .. ..	606,381 0 0	95,955 0 0
Nelson .. .. .. .. ..	444,816 0 0	75,996 0 0
Picton .. .. .. .. ..	687,499 0 0	18,082 0 0
Lake Wakatipu Steamer Service ..	44,271 0 0	..
In Suspense—
Surveys, North Island .. .. ..	..	41,172 0 0
Miscellaneous, North Island ..	..	5,169 0 0
Surveys, South Island .. .. ..	..	5,763 0 0
Miscellaneous, South Island ..	..	5,168 0 0
P.W.D. Stock of Permanent-way ..	..	224,122 0 0
W.R.D Stock of A.O.L. and R.I.A. Stores	145,111 0 0	..
Balance of cost of raising loan of £1,000,000 for Railways Improvement Authorization Act, 1914, Account	..	63,192 0 0
Totals .. .. .. .. ..	£40,275,161 0 0	£6,575,910 0 0