NEW PLYMOUTH TRAMWAYS

Taranaki Daily News, 19 February 1918, Page 6

NEW PLYMOUTH TRAMWAYS

JSKTL'RXS FOR .JANUARY. At last night's meeting of the New Plymouth Borough Council the tramways manager presented the following report for flie month of January:— .Mileagy i!in, 18,632; passengers ear:ied, li;::.passengers carried per ear inilo. 3> D > revenue per ear mile, l.ad, average fare per passenger, 1.73 d; total fares .C)l<l3 7s sd. The above records for January, 1918, show an inerea.-'c in revenue of £3B 19s "d, and Tj'ii; passengers carlied compared with the records of January, 1017. January i< undoubtedly the heaviest iiicnth of the year for our tramways system, aiid 1 eons iiler the results satisfactory. The increase Is not so' larce n- has been shown in other Months of the \ par, l;',U the amount of the revenue is very much in excess those other moiillis, both for January l'flli" and IDIS, and I regard the ligure as approaching very closely the maximum that can lie iva-onably expected from our limited rolling slock. There are times when it is not j.»s-ib!e for :is 1o cone immediately with the fraili-' offering, and consequently passenger) have experienced delavs .'ii waitiiiit for cars. 'Everything possible has on these, occasions been clone to ]c.;-cn this# inconvenience and to employ our plant to its fullest extent LAST WKKK'S RETURNS. The returns from the tramnvays for last week show a slight falling off from I those of the previous week, and they are a!s:i a little below the figures for the uiiTcspoiidinir week of last year. Last week the revenue amounted to £225 17s Kd. and the passengers carried numbered 31,CPS, the figures for the comparative period of la-.t year being €238 14s 2d and Hi, Toil respectively. Following are the details for last week: Passengers. Revenue. Monday (I'd). 11) ... 4815 36 14 4 Tuesday 4717 33 4 (i Wednesday 4285 29 011 Thursday 4551 32 2 5 Friday 4252 29 0 1 Saturday 0398 45 1 3 •Sunday 2070 '2O 8 2 31,088 £225 17 8