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RETURN No. 6. Net Revenue, Approximate Cost of Construction, and Rate of Interest on all Lines, Year ended 31st March, 1885.

A. C. Fife, Railway Accountant.

RETURN No. 7. Comparison of Traffic, Revenue, and Expenditure for the last Six Financial Years.

A. C. Fife, Railway Accountant.

RETURN No. 8. Traffic Ton-Mileage, and Rate of Working, for Five Chief Sections.

4—D. 1.

A. 0. Fife, Railway Accountant

Section. Gross Cost of Opened and Unopened Lines. Cost of Opened Lines. Net Revenue. Bate of Interest. Kawakawa Whangarei-Kamo Auckland Waikato-Thames Main Trunk Line, North Island Napier Wellington Wanganui Wellington-Manawatu Surveys, North Island Miscellaneous Hurunui-Bluff Greymouth Greymouth-Hokitika Grey Harbour Works Westport Westport Harbour Works Nelson Picton Surveys, Middle Island Miscellaneous Stock £ s. d. 86,283 0 0 64,032 0 0 1,349,672 0 0 74,000 0 0 2,441 0 0 551,218 0 0 849,714 0 0 1,334,573 0 0 41,404 0 0 16,612 0 0 5,168 0 0 7,201,507 0 0 192,975 0 0 30,200 0 0 127,018 0 0 210,886 0 0 13,593 0 0 171,990 0 0 228,233 0 0 30,117 0 0 5,168 0 0 263,823 0 0 £ s. d. 86,283 0 0 64,032 0 0 1,319,672 0 0 £ s. d. 655 4 9 488 6 10 34,274 10 1 £ s. A. 0 15 2 0 15 3 2 12 0 551,218 0 0 799,714 0 0 1,334,573 0 0 22,165 7 7 16,798 4 4 12,362 7 11 4 0 5 2 2 0 0 18 6 6,890,118 0 0 176,975 0 0 251,781 16 7 8,495 16 9 313 1 i 16 0 210,886 0 0 6,12715 9 218 1 164,490 0 0 212,233 0 0 2,170 14 0 365 14 3 16 8 0 a 5 Total opened Total opened and unopened .. 12,856,627 0 0 11,810,194 0 0] 355,685 18 10 3 0 3 2 16 4

Year. Expenditure Miles. Revenue. Expenditure, per cent, of Revenue. Tonnage. Parcels, Horses, and Dogs. Cattle, c She^and Passenger,. |> = 1879-80 1880-81 1881-82 1882-83 1883-84 1884-85 ->I72 1,277 I.3I9 i,3S8 1.477 £ 762,573 836,454 892,026 953,347 961,304 1,045,712 £ 580,030 52i,957 523,099 592,821 655,99o 690,026 76-06 62-40 5.8-64 62-18 68-24 65'99 1,108,108 I.377.783 1,437.714 i,S64.793 1,700,040 1,749,856 No. 180,331 286,865 316,611 341,186 359,896 347,425 No. 285.209 300,704 343,751 477,075 686,287 729,528 No. 2,967,090 2,849,561 2,911,477 3,283,378 3,272,644 3,232,886 No. 5,077 6,499 7,207 8,621 9,036 8,999

1881-82. 1882-83. 188; I-84.* 1884-8^.* Section. Ton-Mileage. Rate of Rate of ™^">n-Milea g e. forking, to Ton-Mile. Ton-Mile. Ton-Mileage. Rate of Working, in Pence per Ton-Mile. Ton-Mileage. Rate of Working in Pence per Ton-Mile. Auckland Napier Wellington Wanganui Hurunui-Bluff 4,467,896 1,984,211 2,182,966 2,859,978 37,3°5. 649 48,800,700 i 2'65 I 5,239,016 2-20 2,144,707 3-44 2,623,227 2'4O 2,322,819 2'34 39.697,746 2-42 52,027,515 2-47 2-47 3' 25 3'5i 2-47 6,372,609 2,370,420 3,100,324 2,59i>3° 1 44,627,125 59,061,779 2-25 2'IO 3'°4 3'47 2-36 7,O8S,574 2,983.237 3,388,925 2,536,332 42,877,369 58,871,437 2'43 2-13 3-18 3-38 2-47 • Totals 2'5S 2'42 2-S3 * These statements are for twelve months ending January 5, that for 1883-84 overlaps the previous year.