BUSY TRAMWAY SYSTEMS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1017, 5 January 1911, Page 6

BUSY TRAMWAY SYSTEMS.

AUCKLAND AND CHRISTCHURCH: RECORDS. (By Telegraph—Special Correspondent.) Auckland, January 4. The tramways traffic in Auckland constitutes a very big holiday record. Tho full figures are not yet available, but the returns for . the traffic on Christmas Eve show that a total of 165,511 people paid fares on the Auckland cars on that day. "This number is greatly in excess of'any previous one day's record, and is 15,091 better than tho year before, when 148,417 people used the cars on Christmas Eve. The increased business dono by tho Tramway Company is attributed to a growing population, the largo numbers of visitors in town, and the fact that the company now has more cars for coping with the traffic. No accident on tram or train has had to be recorded in the district. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) Christchurch, January 1. On the four New Year holidays of 191011, the Christchurch tramways carried 189,170 passengers, who paid cash fares totalling d£2).o", compared with IS2,U!> passengers, and ,£2127 for the same holiday of 1909-10, an increase of 7030 passengers and a decrease of . about .£2O in j revenue. On the eight days of the Christmas and New Year holidays, 1909-10, the passengers carried numbered 312,138, compared with 403,398 in 1910-11. The revenue in 1909-10 was *£3901, ns compared with iM4GI in 1910-11, an increase of 81,260 passengers and cf .£559 in revenue.

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