Tramway traffic Returns.
> CONSIDERABLE INCREASES, . ■ The tramway traffic returns for the four weeks ended September-15 show a considerable increase ovor tho corresponding period last year.' Revenue from all'sources from to .£8333, an increase of .GISBO. Working expenses rose from .£5106 to £0347, tho net result being an excess of rrevenuc over working expenses of £2288, compared with £1010 last' year. "Somo: of the chief increases in expenditure wore: —Fuel for powcr-houso, £148; wages, motormen and conductors, ,£511; car oxamuiors and cleaners, ..£101; wages, material, repairs d maintenance overhead equipment, £182; wages, material, ■ repairs, and maintenance v permanent -. way, £183. _ The car miles traversed on all lines . increased from i;i[-,.T1l to 157,4-17. The roveiiue per car mile from city traffic wns.l2.CStl., ami last year 11.8 M., an in-crease-of .70d. per-ear mile. The. working expenses per car mile'were i).G7d. n's -compared with 0.03 d. last year, an in-crsns3-"pf .s'id. per ear mile. The excess of revenue over working expenses per ear ni:!e was 3.40 d., and last venr 2.97 d., an increftßO of .52(1. per car mile. Details of tho various sections for tho period were as 'follow:—lsland' Bay 803,871 passengers carried; receipts jgisis 14s. Id.; car miles, run, 27,-173. Newtown section,- G02.80D, 'passengers; receipts, .£2308-193. 210-;. 35.784 car miles:' Constable Street, 187,330 passengers and £781 lis. Oid.j Oriental Bay, 175,42G and £730 lis. 8!d.; Wallace Street, 100,008 passenger's and £-151- 45.; Aro Street, 00,500' and £402 os. 10il.; Brooklyn. .122,333 and £455 3s. Hid.; Kilbirnio, 211,509 and:,£oß2'9s. The total number of passengers carried in the e.itv during the f6ur r wo.-?kly por-'.'ibd-showed nn ; increase of 223.203.: tho respective figures being 1,410,181 for 1907, ■-. ' arid. 1,135,075 for WOO. Tliero were 4408 three-halfpenny tickets issued : to-.work-iien';;alsa 32t twopenny tickets. There were 'H,B'.Ki sixpenny return tickets issued in.the same period, 1370 fourpennv iickets, 40.500 threepenny, '301,202 two"""Vy, and 077,413.u.'Diir. v.'■■'.-''
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 12, 9 October 1907, Page 5
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306Tramway traffic Returns. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 12, 9 October 1907, Page 5
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