TRAMWAY FIGURES.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 201, 19 May 1908, Page 10

TRAMWAY FIGURES.

RETURN FOR FOUR WEEKS' TRAFFIC. A report was presented to the Tramways Committee yesterday afternoon, giving the tramways , figures for the four weeks ended April 28. . The following is a statement of tho revenue and expenditure "for that period compared with the figures for tho corresponding period of .last, year REVENUE. ' ' 1903. 1907. ' , s. d. .iG s. d. Traffic revenue ... 9,479 19 3 8,G44 211 ICarori mileage dues 284 20' 289.'5 0 Miramar and Seatoun ' : i: mileage dues ' ... 302 15" 0 '— Spfcial cars ... 5 5 9 — i.Carriago ;'of mails and messengers ■ v ... 28 17 0 28 1 G Advertising on tickets 15 7 8 15 7. 8 Rents ... .... ■'•' 3 0 0 —' Sundry revenue .'v. 1 15 42, 16 111 Sale of current 303 12 " 6 . 324 1' 2 .£10,433 3 4 J59.317 0 2 . '. ' EXPENDITURE. ' 1908. 1907. £ s. d. . £ s. d. Traffic expenses ... 4,085 1 1 3,348 2 2 General expenses ... 472 15 7 339 18 9 General repairs and maintenance- , ...■ 1,222 14 9 780 3 9 Power expenses, ... 1,070 3 7 949 6 4 Total working expenses ... ... 6,850 15 .0 5,417 11 0 Excess of Revenue over working 'ex- '• \ penses ... .... 3,587 8 4 3,899 , 9 2 . ,610,433 3 4. ja,317 0 2 The following statistical information Will also be found interesting:— , ' , '1908. 1907 Units supplied to traffic ... 354,247 303,113 Units supplied for street lighting 48,580 , 45,199 Units supplied to traffic, per car mile ... 2.09 2.05 Power expenses per unit ... .63d. .Gsd. Car miles run on city lines 157,557 141,632 Car miles run on Karori linos 5,588 5,785 Car miles run on Miramar . lines 3,822 - Car miles run on Scatouu lines ... ..'. 2,233 — Total car miles run on all lines ... ... ... ... 169,230 147,417 Passongers carried on city lines ... ... ... . ... 1,677,531 1,533,728 Passengers . c'arried on city ' -lines, per car mile ... 10.64 10.82 Traffic revenue on city lines, per car mile ... 14.43 d. 14.64 d. Traffic expenses, per car mile ' ... ... 5.79 d. 5.46 d. General expenses, per car mile .67d. ,55d. Repairs and maintenance, per car mile 1.73 d. 1.27 d. Power expenses, per car ■ mile 1.34 d- 1.33 d. Total working expenses, per . car mile ... .... ... 9.53 d. 8.61 d. Excess of revenue over working expenses, per car mile ... ... - 5.09 d. 6.55 d. Total revenue, per car mile 14.G2d. 15.16 d. METEOROLOGICAL. ; * WEATHER AT 5 P.M. YESTERDAY. Cape Maria Van Diemen.—S.E., fresh; barometer, 30.30; thermometer, G2. Cloudy; sea moderate. llussell.—South, fresh; barometer, 30.25; thermometer, 63. Fine; smooth. Auckland.—S.E., light; barometer, 30.35; thermometer, 65. Gloomy. Manukau Heads.—S.S.E., breeze; barometer, 30.3G; themometor, 55. Cloudy; bar lumpy. Tauranga.—Calm; barometer, 30.24; thermometer, 60. Pine; sea smooth. Gisborne.—Southerly, breeze; barometer, 30.20; thermometer, 60. Pine; sea moderate swell. , ' ; Port Aliuriri.—Calm; barometer, 30.30; thermometer, 56.- Fine; sea smooth. New Plymouth.—South, light; barometer, 30.36; thermometer, 55. Fine;,sea smooth. Wanganui.—N.E., -light; barometer; 30.36; thermometer, 62. Pino; sea smooth. Castlepoint.—S.W., light; barometer, 30.26; thermometer, 53. Fine; sea moderate. Wellington.—Southerly, light; barometer, 30.31; thermometer, 59. Fine. Capo Campbell.—N.W., light; barometer, 30.25; thermometer, 56. Fino; sea smooth. Kaikoura.—N.E., light; barometer,' 30.26; thermometor, 54;- Fine; sea smooth. ■ Wostport.—S.W., breeze; barometer, 30.24; thermometer, 55. Fine; sea considerable swell.

Port Chalmers.—N.W., light; barometer, 30.1G; thormomotor, 56. Fine; sea smooth. Nuggets.—S.W., fresh; barometer, 30.02; thermometer, 51. Cloudy; sea moderate. Bluff.—W.N.W., moderate gale; barometer,. 30.19; thermometer, 5-t. Cloudy. WEATHER FORECAST TO 3 P.M. TO-DAY. Hodorato to strong southerly winds northward of Napier and Now Plymouth, but generally from tho northward elsewhere. WEATHER FORECAST TO MAY 25. Moderate southerly and easterly winds northward of East Cape, Taupo, and Raglan. Moderate westerly thence southward, changing to high northerly winds after tho 23rd. E. A. EDWIN. May 19»