THE RAILWAYS
MOTOR PA - .YN'NGER. INCREASE. •By i'eicgiiiph—Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, liny 27. A feature of the railway returns foi the year ended March 6.lst. last is tin large inerea.se in the passengers win travelled on the read motor ser.iecs Including .lie subsidy of £498,966 oi branch lines and isolated sections, tin wonting account shows the total revenue at £8,747.975 as against £B,-52-1,547 for the previous,year, when tin subsidy amounted to £189,507. The expenditure totalled £6,849.386 a: against £6,685,12.3 in 1927-1928. Tin percentage of expenditure to revenue for the 1928-1929 peril.d was 78.61 compared with (8.42 in the previpuyear. Including the subsidy, the per rentage of expenditure to revenue wa. 1 53.66. compared with 86.20 in 1027197.8. Tlio following tables afford a com pnrison of the main items of rovemi' and expenditure together with the per-ciitage-s for both years.. 1928-1929. NORTH ISLAND. Revenue £4.(*65.7-14 Expendil urc £3,567.442 Percentage 79.89 SOUTH ISLAND. Revenue £3 059.119 Expenditure £2,897,136 .Percentage 91.76 M iseell'anooiis .... £308,131
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Hokitika Guardian, 28 May 1929, Page 6
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