Railway Returns
The following are the traffic returns of the Napier-Taranaki section for the four weeks ending 27th May, 1893, and for the corresponding four weeks in 1892 :—
i «._« , «. __ — Totals... 15,110 7 1 13,979 1 10 The increase was in the items chaff, wool, grain, and passengers.
A Parliamentary paper recently laid on the table of the House shows that for the year ending 31st March, 1892, the. amount on mortgage in the colony was i' 26,333,519, while in the following year, when Mr Balance's new taxation was in force, the amount was £'27,984,365, or over n million nnd n half more than the previous year.
1892. 1893. £ s. d. £ s. d. Passengers... 7,101 0 7 6,280 4 0 Parcels ... 733 18 10 779 7 11 Goods ... 6,867 1« 1 6,574 17 5 Miscellaneous 407 14 7 544 12 6
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Bibliographic details
Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 3, 4 July 1893, Page 2
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140Railway Returns Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 3, 4 July 1893, Page 2
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