WORKING PROFITS RISE
RAILWAY’S EARNINGS FIGURES FOR JANUARY Press Association WELLINGTON, Thursday. An increase is shown in the working profits of the Railway Department for the month ended February 2. The amount is £172,252, an increase of £3,415 over the same period of hist year. The full railway working account for the period is as follows (shillings and pence omitted): NORTH ISLAND Kaihu. —Revenue, £779: expenditure. £779; percentage, 163.91. Gisborne. — £3,263; £3,449; 121.51 per cent. North Island main lines and branches.— £389,208; £266,176; 82.51 per cent. Total: £393,251; £270,405; 82.96 per cent. SOUTH ISLAND Sou tli Island main lines and branches. — £230.764; £201,783; 95.43 per cent. Westport.— £9,4Q5; £7,326; 73.67 per cent. Nelson. — £2,308; £2,993; 150.12 per cent. Picton. — £3,010; £3,280; 121.62 per cent. Total: £245,488; £215,384; 95.43 per cent. Operating total; £638,739; £485,790; 88.03 per cent. Miscellaneous revenue: £21,268. Lake Wakatipu steamers: £1,585: £974; 175.5 per cent. Refreshment rooms. £24,540; 95.41 per cent. Advertising, road motors, and other subsidiary services, departmental dwellings.—£B,36s; £13,281; 160.86 per cent. Grand total: £696.838; £524,586; 86.01 per cent.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 607, 8 March 1929, Page 10
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174WORKING PROFITS RISE Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 607, 8 March 1929, Page 10
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