New Zealand Gazette – 1924 – No. 66

Page 2477

✨ Railway Financial Reports

Oct. 16.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2477

RAILWAY WORKING ACCOUNT, showing REVENUE and EXPENDITURE to the Termination of the Period ending 13th September, 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.
		£ s. d.	£ s. d.	£ s. d.	£ s. d.		£ s. d.	£ s. d.
NORTH ISLAND,—
Whangarei ..	88	7,210 17 6	38,777 7 4	10,799 2 4	48,193 14 9	124·28	954 14 11	1,186 11 9
Kaihu ..	24	535 4 4	3,263 0 1	724 10 11	4,431 12 6	135·81	294 11 6	400 1 6
Gisborne ..	49	2,987 12 2	16,442 5 5	2,637 2 7	15,825 14 4	96·25	727 0 9	699 15 6
North Island Main Lines and Branches	1,153	299,320 18 6	1,714,288 2 4	226,175 9 11	1,324,637 13 6	77·27	3,223 19 7	2,491 3 8
Total ..	1,314	310,054 12 6	1,772,770 15 2	240,336 5 9	1,393,088 18 1	78·58
SOUTH ISLAND,—
South Island Main Lines and Branches	1,596	189,124 12 2	1,094,533 9 3	180,169 7 6	1,029,696 10 7	94·08	1,488 7 8	1,400 4 4
Westport ..	36	10,187 18 10	59,176 0 5	7,197 5 2	40,247 9 1	68·01	3,561 10 5	2,422 6 0
Nelson ..	61	1,901 7 2	10,097 13 11	2,588 4 5	13,651 14 1	135·20	358 13 5	484 17 11
Picton ..	56	2,171 12 10	14,319 4 11	2,390 4 4	16,389 12 9	114·46	554 0 4	634 2 6
Lake Wakatipu Steamers	..	612 1 8	3,825 8 2	1,117 7 8	5,428 1 1	141·89	..	..
Total ..	1,749	203,997 12 8	1,181,951 16 8	193,462 9 1	1,105,413 7 7	93·52
Grand total ..	3,063	514,052 5 2	2,954,722 11 10	433,798 14 10	2,498,502 5 8	84·56

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	6,828 3 6	37,466 16 11	6,220 16 4	46,587 2 10	124·34	1,014 14 7	1,261 14 9
Kaihu ..	24	487 7 3	3,599 7 8	713 11 7	4,614 10 5	128·20	324 18 11	416 11 10
Gisborne ..	49	2,474 16 10	16,419 12 9	2,356 9 2	14,569 15 3	88·73	726 0 9	644 4 10
North Island Main Lines and Branches	1,151	288,517 10 10	1,668,123 0 5	221,283 12 11	1,301,049 4 10	77·99	3,160 4 11	2,464 16 6
Total ..	1,304	298,307 18 5	1,725,608 17 9	230,574 9 2	1,366,820 13 4	79·21
SOUTH ISLAND,—
South Island Main Lines and Branches	1,588	183,579 1 4	1,100,269 3 11	177,351 11 2	1,029,732 10 7	93·59	1,502 18 10	1,407 11 10
Westport ..	36	8,955 8 0	64,458 16 6	6,132 14 2	37,724 0 11	58·50	3,879 9 4	2,270 8 7
Nelson ..	61	1,734 9 1	9,871 19 2	2,169 17 1	13,165 4 0	133·36	350 12 10	467 12 4
Picton ..	56	2,181 3 11	15,408 10 6	3,110 12 0	20,574 8 4	133·53	596 3 4	796 0 8
Lake Wakatipu Steamers	..	558 13 9	3,233 7 7	640 12 6	4,591 13 5	142·01	..	..
Total ..	1,741	197,008 16 1	1,193,241 17 8	189,405 6 11	1,105,787 17 3	92·67
Grand total ..	3,045	495,316 14 6	2,918,850 15 5	419,979 16 1	2,472,608 10 7	84·71

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.
	£ s. d.	£ s. d.
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
Picton .. .. .. .. ..	687,691 .0 0	18,128 0 0
Lake Wakatipu Steamer Service ..	44.350 0 0	..
In Suspense—
Surveys, North Island .. .. ..	..	35,103 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	..
Balance of cost of raising loan of £1,000,000 for Railways Improvement Authorization Act, 1914, Account	..	61,726 0 0
Totals .. .. .. .. ..	£41,399,427 0 0	£7,339,394 0 0