RAILWAY RETURNS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4531, 23 September 1893, Page 3

RAILWAY RETURNS.

returns for the four Weekending 10th August show the total'receipts to have been £74,452 0< Bd, and tbo expenditure £55,078 6s lOd. In the corresponding period last year the revenue was £70,528 IDs 7d and the expenditure £G0,768 16s 2d, Of the revenue, the North Island lines supplied £24,662 lis, as against £24,714 7s Bd, and the Middle Island linos £49,799 9s Bd, as against £50,81412s 4(1, The North Island lines absorbed £20,196 10s 7d, a l * against £20,0917s 3d, and the Middle Isla p d lines £84,87016s Bd, as against ±•40,677, 8s lid. The proportion of expenditure to revenue on several lines for the respective periods of 1898-2 calculated on an annual averngn, was as follows North Island—J(awa kawa, 91-60, 80'16; Whangarei, 78-73, 67-96; Kaihu, 98'7V —; Auckland, 74-72,72-21; Napier Tara, naki, C 879, 66-81; Wellington' 7029, 78-72. MiddloMand-Hurii-nui-Bluff, 59-72, 62 66; Gwvmouth, 68-16. (JG-85; Weatport, 48 21), 56-00;: ifelson, 91'28,98-28; Pictnn, 104*75, , Ifea, Grand total. 68*00,65'83. ifthoWellington section thcrcvenuo Was ±4774 llsßd, an og«iri3t £4611 ( 18s 4d. The number of passengers carried was 25,054, as against 23,309. The fares amounted to £2092 7s Gd, as against £1937 19s (id.—Post,