CHRISTMAS TRAM TRAFFIC.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 701, 29 December 1909, Page 8

CHRISTMAS TRAM TRAFFIC.

4 EECOED FIGUEES TOE BOXING DAY. Tho completed cash returns prepared bj tho Tiarawoys Department show a highly.satisfactory position of affairs in spito of tho lump of bad weather which 7 fell athwart,tho holidays. The total re-, ceipts from Christmas Eve. up to and : including'-'Monday!were ,£lBlB, as against, '■■:;' [ 'iil7o9 ; for. v the same period last year. .The ".. returns ~;for Christmas; Eve,' Christmas Day, and Monday (Boxing Day) all show increases: ori last year's totals, but Sun"day's:,figures, show a slight falling off when, compared with the corresponding .Sunday-last year. Tho cash receipts do :, riot/account for the whole of the peoplo .7 carried, as concession tickets are now in' useiwhich wcro not included'when■ last ,7 ' year's totals were made up.''On the ac-. V..tual ; cash taken' this year, hnwever, there is still an advance pf £109 on the last 7 ' Christmas returns. ■:■; The takings for Box- :' . ing-Day constitute a record:.for Wellington, being an advance .of £39 on the previous .record figures, £642, credited to Boxing Day, 1907. The Lyall Bay-exten-sion received, its first real baptism, the traffic! on this line being exceptionally heavy on Monday.'-.The traffic superintendents had an unusually severe time on. the eastern suburban .lines, owing_ to the heavy loadings from the Bay, Seatpun, arid Miramar,. all of which tracks converge:? on, to the, single .lino of rails. After, a few raoro experiences such .as that of Monday, it would not bo surprising to see tho department urging the. ' necessity, for the duplicatien pf the lines and the extension of the Constable Street ■ track. ;■"'" The figures for the four days' running and a comparison with last year's totals ire:-r-'-''. ■ ■ ■-;" ;.'.';■■■■■ ''■;" ■ '/'■ '~ /1909.- .-, 1908. " ■ Christmas Eve ......;.—... £635 "■' £610 , : 1 Chi-istmas Day... £273 ' £2661 Sunday...-......::: _....;,. £229 .. :£237 ;- .M0nday,..;..'.;.™'.,..'.....'.. ,£6Bl-■ .... i£696 7. : :, '\^. ; . £1,818 -£1,709 ">