LARGER MET REVENUE
RAILWAYS DEPARTMENT JUNE QUARTER IME l 'RES (Per Pross Associfllion.) WELLINGTON, this day. In reviewing the preliminary figiues of railway revenue for the fourweekly period ended June 2.4. the Minister of Railways, the Hon. D. G. Sullivan, said the gross, revenue for the period amounted to (712,497. compared with ,tH31.234 for the corresponding period last year, an increase of £81,203. Working expenses increased b> £20,058. from £057,943 to £078.001. leaving an improvement in the neA revenue position for Ihc four weeks ot £01.205. , . , "For the year to dale, ’ said tnc Minister,” that is, from April 1 to June 24, the gross revenue shows an increase of £190,330, the difference between £2,107,489 in 1938, _ and £2,297.810 in 1939, although there is one day less in the accounting period for 1939. , “Working expenses for the year to date over the same period increased by £58,874 from £1,982,094 to £2,040.908, leaving an increase in the nett revenue of £131,402 which rose from £125.380 in 1938 to £250,848 in 1939. "The improved revenue position is being fullv maintained during the three weeks of the July period which, in the department’s experience, ts me slackest revenue month of the yeai, concluded Mr. Sullivan.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/GISH19390728.2.16
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20001, 28 July 1939, Page 3
Word count
Tapeke kupu
201LARGER MET REVENUE Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20001, 28 July 1939, Page 3
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
The Gisborne Herald Company is the copyright owner for the Gisborne Herald. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Gisborne Herald Company. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in