Railway Returns.
The railway returns of the colony for the first 44 weeks of the financial year ha^e been ..published. Thi total receipts amounted to £791,342, as compared with #740,450 for the corresponding ..period last year, thus showing an in* crease of £50.592. The expenditure amounted to £508,955, as compared! with £433,620, last vesr,. giving the large increase of £75 335; thus causing an actual -.< decrease in profits of £24.4.43. On thft ETur nnni* Bluff line 4hef receipts Kave diminished by £8 per j mile, in spite of largely-augmented traffic; Vrind'lh'eJwprkini? expenses have 'increased by jg4% per mile. The neh profits on that lino alone exhibit a fillingoff of some L28,000, and there is also a'large decrease on the WangariuiFoxton line. In fict, it is only the satiß factory increase in net profits given by the Wellington and A uckland seen tions,and by the Greymouth and Westpprt mineral lines, that hare prevented the falling-off b*eing^more prominent j as the decreace on the Hnrunui- Bluff and ' Wan~anui lines alone amounts to sorae'j L33,000. The other lines display little alteration from last year. ; ".''
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 32, 13 March 1883, Page 2
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181Railway Returns. Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 32, 13 March 1883, Page 2
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