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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

RAILWAY WORKING ACCOUNT, showing REVENUE and EXPENDITURE to the Termination of the Period ending
21st June, 1924.

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,—|Whangarei|88|6,978 15 11|17,439 8 8|7,146 5 8|19,387 11 8|111·17|858 15 2|954 13 10
||Kaihu|24|587 10 2|1,784 12 6|808 5 5|2,071 2 2|119·40|313 3 11|373 19 0
||Gisborne|49|2,640 5 5|7,940 13 1|2,847 3 8|7,651 17 4|96·36|702 4 8|676 13 11
||North Island Main Lines and Branches|1,151|294,211 13 9|851,565 12 1|230,808 16 8|633,545 7 8|74·40|3,206 0 3|2,385 3 11
|Total ..|1,812|304,418 5 3|878,680 6 4|241,605 11 5|662,655 18 10|75·41|
SOUTH ISLAND,—|South Island Main Lines and Branches|1,596|189,764 17 5|570,766 11 10|177,274 7 10|488,851 16 0|87·18|1,527 11 1|1,331 8 0
||Westport|36|10,874 7 0|28,331 12 10|6,928 19 11|17,292 2 2|61·03|3,410 5 9|2,081 9 2
||Nelson|61|1,650 6 2|5,147 16 7|2,232 2 3|6,106 9 7|118·62|365 13 10|433 15 10
||Pioton|56|2,390 10 6|7,522 12 1|3,168 14 4|8,088 5 5|107·52|582 2 2|625 17 7
||Lake Wakatipu Steamers|..|620 14 10|2,006 8 3|580 8 5|2,143 14 5|106·84|
|Total ..|1,749|205,300 15 11|603,775 1 7|190,184 12 9|522,482 7 7|86·54|
Grand total|3,061|509,719 1 2|1,482,455 7 11|431,790 4 2|1,185,138 6 5|79·94|

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.
NORTH ISLAND,—|Whangarei|80|6,151 9 7|18,993 2 1|11,739 7 3|25,790 14 6|135·79|1,028 15 10|1,396 10 11
||Kaihu|24|576 7 6|2,098 1 9|359 17 7|2,632 4 4|125·46|378 16 5|475 5 3
||Gisborne|49|2,635 2 4|9,084 6 8|2,551 19 9|7,957 10 8|87·60|803 7 6|703 14 6
||North Island Main Lines and Branches|1,140|283,151 2 5|861,423 19 2|218,556 7 5|643,153 14 4|74·66|3,274 8 5|2,444 14 9
|Total ..|1,293|292,514 1 10|891,599 9 8|233,707 12 0|679,534 3 10|76·22|
SOUTH ISLAND,—|South Island Main Lines and Branches|1,586|200,798 11 1|583,359 14 8|170,220 19 0|503,853 2 7|86·37|1,593 17 7|1,376 13 5
||Westport|36|12,342 1 1|33,351 7 1|6,296 8 8|18,519 10 4|55·53|4,014 12 8|2,229 4 0
||Nelson|61|1,476 5 11|5,144 11 0|2,213 7 5|6,483 14 6|126·03|365 9 3|460 11 10
||Pioton|56|2,928 19 4|8,511 19 10|3,641 1 7|10,465 7 2|122·95|658 13 4|809 16 5
||Lake Wakatipu Steamers|..|618 8 10|1,923 10 6|986 1 7|2,727 19 0|141·82|
|Total ..|1,739|218,159 6 3|632,291 3 1|183,357 18 3|542,049 13 7|85·73|
Grand total|3,032|510,673 8 1|1,523,890 12 9|417,065 10 3|1,221,583 17 5|80·16|

Cost of CONSTRUCTION of Railways, ROLLING-STOCK, ETC., to 31st March, 1924, as furnished by Public Works Department and by Greymouth and Westport Harbour Boards respectively.

Section.|Cost of Opened Lines.|Cost of Unopened Lines.
Whangarei|£ 962,512 0 0|£ 529,488 0 0
Kaihu|£ 191,902 0 0|
Tauranga|£ 1,107,661 0 0|
Gisborne|£ 699,362 0 0|£ 714,114 0 0
North Island Main Lines and Branches|£ 19,076,401 0 0|£ 2,642,373 0 0
South Island Main Lines and Branches|£ 15,994,401 0 0|£ 315,086 0 0
Westland|£ 2,438,977 0 0|£ 1,502,724 0 0
Westport|£ 699,940 0 0|£ 97,627 0 0
Nelson|£ 444,816 0 0|£ 98,684 0 0
Pioton|£ 687,691 0 0|£ 18,128 0 0
Lake Wakatipu Steamer Service|£ 44,350 0 0|
In Suspense—
Surveys, North Island|£ 35,108 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|£ 200,580 0 0
W.R.D. Stock of A.O.L. and R.I.A Stores|£ 159,075 0 0|£ 61,726 0 0
Balance of cost of raising loan of £1,000,000 for Railways Improvement Authorization Act, 1914, Account|
Totals|£41,899,427 0 0|£7,389,394 0 0

Railways Department, 21st July, 1924. L. HAMANN, Chief Accountant, New Zealand Railways.