A FEW RAILWAY POINTS.
Parcels numbered (133,770, or 1)055 more than in the previous year. The South Island lines yielded in revenue, £1,081.4(11 2s Bd. against £1,023,004 10s Gd.
Altogether 772,571 tons of grain wore carried. This shows an increase of 8538 tons over 1800-00.
The revenue from the North Island lines last year amounted t0£045,744 18s sd, against £000,820 7s 3d iu the previous year.
For the year ended 31st March, 1901, 6,213,593 ordinary first and second-class passengers travelled on the New Zealand railways. There has been considerable devclopement in the timber trade. There were 46,126 tons more timber railed than in the previous year. The mineral traffic of the railways shows a considerable expansion. During the year 1,300,241 tons were trucked, an increase of 147,543 tons on the previous year.
The total expenditure on the working railways amounted to £1,127,847 10s od or 65.30 per cent, of revenue, In the previous year the working cost was 64.80 per cent.
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 11 May 1901, Page 4
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161A FEW RAILWAY POINTS. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 11 May 1901, Page 4
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