RAILWAY RETURNS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1960, 17 January 1914, Page 6

RAILWAY RETURNS.

SOME INTERESTING COMPARISONS. ■' Interesting comparisons are afforded by tho railway traffic returns published in last night's "Gazette." -The figures, are for the period from the beginning of the financial year ou April 1 to December 6. The details of the revenue and expenditure over tho- various sections arc as follow:— North Island. Revenue. Expenditure. .£ £ Whangarei .... 28,902 22,040 Kaihu 3,238 4,605 ' Gisborne' 14,511 8,848 N.I. Main Line and branches 1,854,548 1,029,257 Total 1,401,200 1,064,750 South Island, v S.I. Main Lino and branches 964,841 768,211 Westland 92,827 64,319 Westport 71,987 . 37,907 Nelson 20,078 16,807 Picton <; '21,893 21,494 Lake Wakatipu steamers 8,654 6,123 1,174,782 913,865 The comparison of the total figures for tho Dominion for tho period, with those of the same portion of. the preceding year, is as follows:— 1912. 1913. ■ £ £ Revenue 2,590,646 2,575,982 Expenditure ... 1,822,678 1,978,616 Per cent, of expenditure to • revenue 70.86 76.81 The revenue per mile of railway on the main lines and branches in the two islands compares as under:— 1912. 1913. £ £ NoTth" Island 1747 1791 South Island 1076 1020 ROYAL ARTILLERY BAND. • o 'A TOTJR ARRANGED. (By TclecruDh.-Press Association.) Auckland, January 16. It has been arranged that tho Royal Artillery Band, before it conchidos 'its season_ at the Auckland Exhibition, will early in February visit tho following New Zealand towns, and give concerts in each: —Wellington, Dunedin, Christchurch, New . Plymouth, Wanganui, Napier, Invercargill, Timaru, Oamaru, Palmerston, Rotorua.