RAILWAY RETURNS.
[Press Special Wire.] WELLINGTON, May 15. The receipts and expenditure upon the Now Zealand railways during the current financial year up to date are in round numbers as follows: Line. Receipts. Expenditure. £ £ Kaipara 3,860 3,617 Auckland ... ... 39,633 32,058 Napier ... ... 22,432 14,623 Wellington ... 23,339 15,874 Wanganui 26,021 16,704 New Plymouth ... 4,817 4,189 Groymouth ... 6,631 3,607 Westport ... ... 2,014 2,618 Nelson ... ... 5,505 4,502 Picton ... ... 4,053 3,683 Christchurch - Dunedin & Invercargill 432,747 294,242 The totals are as follow Miles open for traffic, 1111; four-weekly receipts, £74,919 ; receipts to date, £571,059; expend!'ure to date, £375,752 ; percentage of expenditure to receipts, 69 '3O.
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Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1634, 16 May 1879, Page 3
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