RAILWAY TRAFFIC

Hokitika Guardian, 7 April 1933, Page 5

RAILWAY TRAFFIC

CA NTF.RBUR Y-WESTL AND LINE

£57,000 DECREASE. SHOWN. (Per Press Association — Copyright.)

CHRISTCHURCH. April. 6

For the year ended on' Friday last, the revenue from .all outward railway traffic in the Canterbury-We s tland district—that is, from Lyttelton to Tjh•wai’d, including the ■■■■ Mount Somers branch, and all West C°aist. stations — disclose a decrease of '£57,237, compared with that of the previous year. ;• *

The 1 items showing* an' ihofease were the amount of timber and -the number of bearer tickets, and tho total number of passengers carried/ S Q ’.ne 87,367 tons oi timber Were carried, as against 80,854 tons --last- year,., the increase .being largely due to big shipments of white pine to Australia. The, total oi bearer tickets sold—twelve.tr] p tickets available up to 25 miles, which. cost 10 per cent, lens than the ordinary fare rose : froth' .4520..tq, S.|S2, .On fhO other band, the number-of B ea&on tickets sold fell from 61,333. to 51,808. A possible explanation is; that, -travellers are flavouring the bear®r ' tickets-The-cause they do not’ 'involve so much expenditure at tho one time.

The number . 0 f sheep -band , -pigs carried fell 'from y 2,54, 446 t0.'2,648, 091. ■ • \v : '7 The figures (with ■■ those for 1932 in parenthesis) W® Passengers, (£lB3 882) : parcels £30,507 , (£32,975); goods £606,149 (£727,663) ous £26,551 (£30,129) : totals £917,412 £974,649). Passengers 1,373,195 (V 347 314)- season tickets 51,808 (61,393); hearer tickets 5162 (4520) ■' 749 -(34,727); sheep, pigs, 2,048,091 (2,064,446) ; timber (tons) 87.367 (80.854); goods (tons) 1,062,062 (I,lol** £l6). ' ' - ■