RAILWAY FIGURES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3697, 29 September 1927, Page 2

RAILWAY FIGURES.

DECREASE IN PASSENGERS.

The total number of ordinary passengers carried on the railways for the financial year which ended on March 31 last, was 10,305,065, a decrease of 1,508,415, as compared with the previous year. This represented a revenue of £2,045,348 as against £2,271,498 for 1925-26.

Season tickets amounted to 585,094, a decrease of 15,198, and the revenue to £258,832. Weekly twel-ve-trip tickets issued numbered 113,187, a decrease of 12,992 Workers’ weekly tickets on suburban lines numbered 352,128, a decrease of 2588.

The total excursion traffic for the year was 910,796 passengers and £384,184 revenue, as against 905,462 passengers and £470,394 revenue the previous year, an increase of 5334 passengers and a decrease of £86,210 in revenue. “The increase in passengers,” says thd annual report of the Railway Board, “is largely due to the number of school-children carried to the various centres in connection with the visit of Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of York, while the decrease in revenue may be attributed to the number of long-dis-tance passengers who visited the Dunedin Exhibition during the previous year.” The goods and live-stock traffic was 7,308,449 tons, an increase of 52,307 tons over the preceding year’s figures. The increases were: Sheep and pigs, 690,712 head; goods (including minerals), 132,285 tons. The increase in general goods traffic was 114,852 tons, and in minerals 17,433 tons.