RAILWAY WORKING ACCOUNT, showing REVENUE and EXPENDITURE to the Termination of the Period ending
31st March, 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. | Revenue per Mile | Expenditure per Mile
| of Revenue | of Railway. | of Railway.
NORTH ISLAND,
Whangarei .. 88 9,801 5 4 98,379 2 0 7,594 8 9 115,781 15 10 117·69 1,117 18 11 1,315 14 0
Kaihu .. 24 885 16 11 9,071 14 3 807 3 11 9,224 10 3 101·68 377 19 9 384 7 1
Gisborne .. 60 3,452 15 11 38,000 17 10 3,460 12 10 36,386 9 9 95·75 728 7 3 697 8 4
North Island Main Lines and Branches 1,158 390,679 3 10 4,157,510 18 3 258,030 2 6 2,935,490 10 11 70·61 3,601 14 8 2,543 1 6
Total .. 1,330 404,819 2 0 4,302,962 12 4 269,892 8 0 3,096,883 6 9 71·97
SOUTH ISLAND,
South Island Main Lines and Branches 1,595 260,417 14 10 2,610,240 3 5 195,128 7 8 2,276,893 7 11 87·23 1,636 16 7 1,427 15 10
Westport .. 43 11,553 13 7 130,365 15 5 8,641 18 4 91,275 15 1 70·02 3,567 18 1 2,498 1 6
Nelson .. 61 2,502 15 9 24,736 17 2 3,068 19 4 31,862 5 1 128·80 405 10 5 522 6 8
Picton .. 56 8,963 3 2 34,122 15 1 3,219 14 11 36,221 9 1 106·15 609 6 8 646 16 3
Lake Wakatipu Steamers .. 1,046 2 4 10,096 2 4 1,066 9 0 12,279 6 10 121·62
Total .. 1,755 279,483 9 8 2,809,561 13 5 211,120 9 3 2,448,532 4 0 87·15
Grand total .. 3,085 684,302 11 8 7,112,524 5 9 481,012 17 3 5,545,415 10 9 77·97

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. | Revenue per Mile | Expenditure per Mile
| of Revenue | of Railway. | of Railway.
NORTH ISLAND,
Whangarei .. 88 8,276 8 2 90,138 10 0 10,240 6 5 96,791 18 3 107·38 1,080 19 10 1,60 15 10
Kaihu .. 24 1,030 4 1 8,942 12 11 965 11 8 10,111 4 11 113·07 372 12 3 421 6 0
Gisborne .. 49 3,472 0 4 39,168 19 0 2,339 19 3 33,034 0 0 84·34 799 7 4 674 3 3
North Island Main Lines and Branches 1,151 356,955 18 6 4,059,142 11 10 242,689 3 82,842,663 12 7 70·03 3,537 0 6 2,477 0 4
Total .. 1,312 369,734 11 1 4,197,392 13 9 256,235 1 0 2,982,600 15 9 71·06
SOUTH ISLAND,
South Island Main Lines and Branches 1,588 229,020 17 2 2,600,131 19 4 182,544 16 22,252,272 17 1 86·62 1,638 4 9 1,419 1 3
Westport .. 36 10,622 7 4 115,642 11 7 7,380 11 9 87,692 4 8 75·83 3,212 5 11 2,435 17 11
Nelson .. 61 2,124 9 9 24,773 5 8 2,887 4 11 29,942 18 11 120·87 406 2 5 490 17 4
Picton .. 56 3,108 6 7 37,397 16 6 2,983 19 11 40,801 3 0 109·10 667 16 5 728 11 10
Lake Wakatipu Steamers .. 939 18 0 8,872 5 0 872 16 1 10,455 13 0 117·85
Total .. 1,741 245,815 18 10 2,786,817 18 1 196,669 8 10 2,421,164 16 8 86·88
Grand total .. 3,053 615,550 9 11 6,984,210 11 10 452,904 9 10 5,403,765 12 5 77·37

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
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 .. 159,075 0 0 200,580 0 0
W.R.D. Stock of A.O.L. and R.I.A Stores .. .. 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 £7,339,394 0 0

H. VALENTINE,
Acting Chief Accountant, New Zealand Railways.
Railways Department, 4th May, 1925.