Railway Financial Reports




MAR. 5.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 697

RAILWAY WORKING ACCOUNT, showing REVENUE and EXPENDITURE to the Termination of the Period ending
31st January, 1925.

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 £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d.
Kaihu .. 24 9,282 18 7 79,600 14 0 9,069 7 1 98,058 2 5
Gisborne .. 60 909 10 10 7,309 12 10 580 0 11 7,609 17 6
North Island Main 1,158 3,472 7 0 31,028 11 1 2,624 5 2 29,550 16 6
Lines and Branches 354,019 7 2 3,401,408 7 10 228,903 0 3 2,444,076 18 0
Total .. 1,330 367,684 3 7 3,519,347 5 9 241,176 13 5
SOUTH ISLAND,-- South Island Main 1,596 213,094 4 8 2,113,712 18 5 175,055 8 6 1,903,786 6 1
Lines and Branches Westport .. 36 9,327 8 10 107,856 14 8 7,190 17 10 75,079 9 8
Nelson .. 61 2,024 5 9 20,073 19 7 2,561 13 2 26,174 13 4
Picton .. 56 2,715 5 9 26,466 10 7 2,732 8 6 29,753 15 0
Lake Wakatipu Steamers 1,320 6 5 8,101 5 4 885 7 1 9,951 8 1 122'84
Total .. 1,749 228,481 11 5 2,276,211 8 7 188,425 15 1
Grand total .. 3,079 596,165 15 0 5,795,558 14 4 429,602 8 6

CORRESPONDING PERIOD LAST YEAR.

NORTH ISLAND,-- Whangarei .. 88 £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d.
Kaihu .. 24 8,613 1 8 74,025 15 0 5,448 16 11 80,171 14 5 108'30 1,059 16 10
Gisborne .. 49 824 7 3 7,055 4 8 838 11 11 8,336 3 3 118'16 347 8 5
North Island Main 1,151 3,398 5 3 32,318 16 7 2,561 16 10 28,000 14 8 86'64 779 9 10
Lines and Branches 359,976 14 10 3,337,194 3 0 217,777 13 10 2,373,259 15 6 71'12 3,438 10 0
Total .. 1,312 372,812 9 0 3,450,593 19 3 226,626 19 6 2,489,768 7 10 72'15
SOUTH ISLAND,-- South Island Main 1,588 225,853 7 9 2,126,168 19 7 174,036 8 9 1,883,252 19 2 88'57 1,583 6 7
Lines and Branches Westport .. 36 12,752 13 5 88,938 15 3 11,576 12 1 70,356 1 4 79'11 2,919 14 1
Nelson .. 61 2,005 2 11 20,240 13 8 2,228 18 11 24,586 12 10 121'47 392 2 11
Picton .. 56 3,836 17 8 30,414 8 3 2,637 9 7 34,902 18 11 114'76 641 17 3
Lake Wakatipu Steamers 807 6 4 6,911 16 0 863 10 4 8,707 15 3 125'98 ... ...
Total .. 1,741 245,255 8 1 2,272,674 12 9 191,342 19 8 2,021,806 7 6 88'96
Grand total .. 3,053 618,067 17 1 5,723,268 12 0 417,969 19 2 4,511,574 15 4 78'83

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 £ s. d. £ s. d.
Kaihu 962,512 0 0 529,488 0 0
Tauranga 191,902 0 0 ...
Gisborne ... 1,107,661 0 0
North Island Main Lines and Branches 699,862 0 0 714,114 0 0
South Island Main Lines and Branches 19,076,401 0 0 2,642,378 0 0
Westland 15,994,401 0 0 315,086 0 0
Westport 2,438,977 0 0 1,502,724 0 0
Nelson 699,940 0 0 97,627 0 0
Picton 444,816 0 0 98,684 0 0
Lake Wakatipu Steamer Service 687,691 0 0 18,128 0 0
In Suspense-- Surveys, North Island 44 350 0 0 ...
Miscellaneous, North Island ... 35,103 0 0
Surveys, South Island ... 5,169 0 0
Miscellaneous, South Island ... 5,763 0 0
P.W.D. Stock of Permanent-way 159,075 0 0 5,168 0 0
W.R.D. Stock of A.O.L. and R.I.A Stores ... 200,580 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

Railways Department, 2nd March, 1925.

L. HAMANN,
Chief Accountant, New Zealand Railways.



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🚂 Traffic Returns for New Zealand Railways (continued from previous page)

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2 March 1925
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2 March 1925
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  • L. Hamann, Chief Accountant, New Zealand Railways