Railway Financial Reports




APRIL 2.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1013

RAILWAY WORKING ACCOUNT, showing REVENUE and EXPENDITURE to the Termination of the Period ending 28th February, 1925.

Section Miles open for Traffic Revenue. Expenditure.
Four-weekly. Total to Date.
NORTH ISLAND, Whangarei 88 £ s. d. 8,977 2 8 £ s. d. 88,577 16 8
Kaihu 24 £ s. d. 876 4 6 £ s. d. 8,185 17 4
Gisborne 60 £ s. d. 3,519 10 10 £ s. d. 34,548 1 11
North Island Main Lines and Branches 1,158 £ s. d. 365,423 6 7 £ s. d. 3,766,831 14 5
Total £ s. d. 1,330 378,796 4 7 £ s. d. 3,898,143 10 4
SOUTH ISLAND, South Island Main Lines and Branches 1,596 £ s. d. 236,109 10 2 £ s. d. 2,349,822 8 7
Westport 36 £ s. d. 10,955 7 2 £ s. d. 118,812 1 10
Nelson 61 £ s. d. 2,160 1 10 £ s. d. 22,234 1 5
Picton 56 £ s. d. 3,693 1 4 £ s. d. 30,159 11 11
Lake Wakatipu Steamers £ s. d. 948 14 8 £ s. d. 9,050 0 0
Total £ s. d. 1,749 253,866 15 2 £ s. d. 2,530,078 3 9
Grand total £ s. d. 3,079 632,662 19 9 £ s. d. 6,428,221 14 1

For a Twelve-monthly Period. Average to Date.

Per Cent. Revenue Expenditure
of per Mile per Mile
Revenue of Railway. of Railway
£ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d.
122·14 1,090 8 11 1,331 17 0
102·83 369 10 0 379 19 0
95·30 726 8 11 692 6 8
71·08 3,536 3 32,513 10 1
72·52
88·59 1,596 6 11 1,414 4 6
69·55 3,575 7 32,486 13 4
394 17 4 511 7 1
588 8 11 638 8 6
11,212 17 10 123·90
88·43
78·78

CORRESPONDING PERIOD LAST YEAR.

| NORTH ISLAND, Whangarei | 88 | £ s. d. 7,836 6 10 | £ s. d. 81,862 1 10 | £ s. d. 6,379 17 5 | £ s. d. 86,551 11 10 |
| Kaihu | 24 | £ s. d. 857 4 2 | £ s. d. 7,912 8 10 | £ s. d. 809 10 0 | £ s. d. 9,145 13 3 |
| Gisborne | 49 | £ s. d. 3,378 2 1 | £ s. d. 35,696 18 8 | £ s. d. 2,693 6 1 | £ s. d. 30,694 0 9 |
| North Island Main Lines and Branches | 1,151 | £ s. d. 364,992 10 4 | £ s. d. 3,702,186 13 4 | £ s. d. 226,714 13 5 | £ s. d. 2,599,974 8 11 |
| Total | | £ s. d. 1,312 377,064 3 5 | £ s. d. 3,827,658 2 8 | £ s. d. 236,597 6 11 | £ s. d. 2,726,365 14 9 |
| SOUTH ISLAND, South Island Main Lines and Branches | 1,588 | £ s. d. 244,942 2 7 | £ s. d. 2,371,111 2 2 | £ s. d. 186,475 1 9 | £ s. d. 2,069,728 0 11 |
| Westport | 36 | £ s. d. 16,081 9 0 | £ s. d. 105,020 4 3 | £ s. d. 9,955 11 7 | £ s. d. 80,311 12 11 |
| Nelson | 61 | £ s. d. 2,408 2 3 | £ s. d. 22,648 15 11 | £ s. d. 2,469 1 2 | £ s. d. 27,055 14 0 |
| Picton | 56 | £ s. d. 3,875 1 8 | £ s. d. 34,289 9 11 | £ s. d. 2,914 4 2 | £ s. d. 37,817 3 1 |
| Lake Wakatipu Steamers | | £ s. d. 1,020 11 0 | £ s. d. 7,932 7 0 | £ s. d. 875 1 8 | £ s. d. 9,582 16 11 |
| Total | | £ s. d. 1,741 268,327 6 6 | £ s. d. 2,541,001 19 3 | £ s. d. 202,689 0 4 | £ s. d. 2,224,495 7 10 |
| Grand total | | £ s. d. 3,053 645,391 9 11 | £ s. d. 6,368,660 1 11 | £ s. d. 439,286 7 3 | £ s. d. 4,950,861 2 7 |

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. 962,512 0 0 £ s. d. 529,488 0 0
Kaihu £ s. d. 191,902 0 0 ...
Tauranga ... £ s. d. 1,107,661 0 0
Gisborne ... £ s. d. 714,114 0 0
North Island Main Lines and Branches ... £ s. d. 2,642,378 0 0
South Island Main Lines and Branches ... £ s. d. 315,086 0 0
Westland ... £ s. d. 1,502,724 0 0
Westport ... £ s. d. 97,627 0 0
Nelson ... £ s. d. 98,684 0 0
Picton ... £ s. d. 18,128 0 0
Lake Wakatipu Steamer Service £ s. d. 44 350 0 0 ...
In Suspense—Surveys, North Island ... £ s. d. 35,103 0 0
Miscellaneous, North Island ... £ s. d. 5,169 0 0
Surveys, South Island ... £ s. d. 5,763 0 0
Miscellaneous, South Island ... £ s. d. 5,168 0 0
P.W.D. Stock of Permanent-way £ s. d. 159,075 0 0 £ s. d. 200,580 0 0
W.R.D. Stock of A.O.L. and R.I.A Stores ... £ s. d. 61,726 0 0
Balance of cost of raising loan of £1,000,000 for Railways Improvement Authorization Act 1914 Account ... ...
Totals £ s. d. 41,399,427 0 0 £ s. d. 7,339,394 0 0

Railways Department, 30th March, 1925.

L. HAMANN,
Chief Accountant, New Zealand Railways.



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🚂 New Zealand Railways Traffic Returns for February 1925 (continued from previous page)

🚂 Transport & Communications
Railways, Traffic Returns, Passengers, Goods, Revenue, Whangarei, Kaihu, Gisborne, North Island, South Island, Westport, Nelson, Picton, Lake Wakatipu
  • L. Hamann, Chief Accountant, New Zealand Railways