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RETURN No. 6. Estimated Cost of Construction of Railways, Net Revenue, and Rate of Interest earned on Capital expended on Opened Lines.

Note -The amount stated as cost of construction includes !he Provincial and General Government expenditure on railways opened and unopened, and also the purchase-money for the District Eailways taken over by the Government. '* Total opened whole year, and cost of extensions equivalent to time open... ... ... ... £13,899,955 Cost of extensions equivalent to portion of year unopened ... ... ■•■ ••■ •■• 15U,;»u Total opened Slst March, 1890 £14,050,735 A. C. Fife, Eailway Accountant. 1 '

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1886.! 1887. 1888. 1889. 1890. 1883. 1884. 1885. Section. State of Line. Cost of Construction. Net Revenue. Bateot CcS^° 1 Net Eate of Interest. stl ~°£ on . Revenue.., Interest. | °°st of Net Eate ol strucSon. Eevenue- I Iuterest- I C2 5t of Net Eate of struction. »^e™e- Interest1 ___^__ C°st oI Net Eate of BtrueSon. lteren"e- Interest' Cost of Net Kate 0 , BtaSrtton. Beven«e- InterestCost of Construction. Net Revenue. Bate of Interest. Cost of ]s; - et Btrucaon. ECTenueEate 01 Interest £ 26,603 36,949 54,153 £ 621 £ s. d. 2 6 8 £ 26,603 47,372 61,558 £ 621 £ s. d. 2 6 8 £ 86,283 £ 655 £ s. d. 0 15 2 £ 89,441 £ 958 £ s. d. 115 £ 90,528 £ 1,951 £ s. d. 2 3 1 £ 90,069 £ 1,393 £ s. d. 1 10 11 £ 89,993 £ 973 £ s. d. 118 £ 90,235 £ 857 £ s. a. 0 19 0 Kawakawa Whangarei-Kamo Marton-Te Awamutuf (North End) \ Auckland Opened Unopened Opened Unopened Opened 420 0 15" 6 -20 64,032 488 0 15 3 68,241 60,780 617 0 18 1 69,961 182,869 717 10 6 69,721 135,501 81 0 2 4 69,722 104,838 108,978 1,688,971 161,186 662,832 64,708 976,465 74,510 7,785 99,018 1,400,674 692 0119 10 70,C95 49,054 ( 178,377 \ 1,720,587 134,414 656,164 133,390 1,050,095 15,459 1,200 ( 103,452 ( 1,408,900 398 0 11 4 1,112,720 64,592 419,299 32,003 764,860 3,017 27,295 2 9 1 1,179,937 106,209 469,584 22,200 781,417 7,963 28,079 2 7 7 1,319,672 106,441 551,218 34,275 2 12 0 17545,181 81,437 559,800 12,109 815,000 92,762 37,929 2 9 1 1,672,506 51,694 628,669 7,303 961,871 18,236 19,228 13 0 1,807,971 112,500 659,892 28,160 966,386 49,344 23,950 16 6 1.33,210 1 16 11 1 28,351 J 1 9 10 Napier Unopened Opened Unopened Opened Unopened 14,553 12^990 3 9' 5 1 14 0 18!572 11,126 3 19' 1 18 6 799,714 50,000 22^165 16,798 4 0 5 2 2 0 271647 20,850 4 18 9 2 11 2 29,341 22^036 4 13 4 2 5 10 27,645 19,436 4 3~ 9 2 0 3 31,346 20,753 4 14 7 2 2 6 34,214 25,623 5 43 2 8 10 Wellington Marton-Te Awamutu ( (South End) \ Wanganui Opened 1,097,046 72,714 40,237 15^499 18 3 1,221,567 10,876 41), 192 7,691 0 12' 7 1,334,573 12,362 0 18 6 1,349,900 18,330 41,815 8^650 0 12 10 1,398,738 7,255 0 10 4 1,403,041 9^765 0 13 11 I 13,312 0 17 9 j- 23,919 1 11 7 Unopened 41,404 41,816 41,798 41,895 41,898 Wellington - Foxton (private line) Stock .. Surveys Miscellaneous .. Hurunui-Blufl .. „ 103,730 3,891 2,507 6,299,303 326,035 163,097 43,895 80,802 163,362 7,535 5,168 6,615,631 325,004 166,269 88,095 78,665 43,000 206,945 8,467 156,683 5,700 192,307 14,567 139,742 16,612 5,168 6,908,840 311,389 176,975 46,200 127,018 17,129 5,168 7,288,049 355,199 180,300 15,959 127,230 37,777 214,402 14,111 166,700 8,214 195,800 ■ 23,805 300,241 17,334 5,169 7,428,562 419,786 189,393 15,959 127,234 54,549 214,804 14,111 163,965 12,500 198,570 28,130 162,595 20,229 5,169 7,574,218 440,437 195,114 15,959 127,234 69,389 222,894 14,111 165,178 12,500 198,494 30,465 105,072 26,163 5,169 7,580,494 503,246 199,121 15,959 127,234 92,274 232,934 14,111 165,087 12,500 198,548 32,442 75,590 • ■ 27,206 5,169 7,805,935 430,666 200,219 15,959 127,234 99,784 226,415 14,111 165,448 12,500 199,033 32,568 81,423 25,000 37,600 5,168 Opened Unopened Opened j Unopened 273,656 4 611 222,100 3 7* 2 251,782 3 12'lO 239,601 3 5~ 9 196^488 2 12 11 204,192 2 13 11 222,714 2 18 9 276,016 3 10 9 Greymouth 7^555 4 12 8 8,311 4 19 9 8,496 4 16 0 9,850 5 9 3 10,437 5 10 2 11,450 5 17 5 1338 6 12 6 8^338 4 3 3 „ Harbour Works Greymouth-Hokitika Westport Harbour Works Nelson I Opened 199,891 41335 2 3 4 6,619 3 3 11 210,886 13,593 164,490 7,500 193,511 16,000 263,823 6,128 2 18 1 8,492 3 19 2 10,385 4 16' 8 116 0 0 11 8,444 3 15 9 13,000 5 11 8 13,696 6 10 Opened Unopened Opened Unopened 153,224 2,000 188,802 13,567 81,250 2^461 1 12 1 1,828 13 4 2471 16 5 2,200 1 6~ 6 1^764 1,429 0 17 4 1,130 0 13 8 "'96 0 i' 2 Picton l[l41 0 12' 1 387 0 4 0 366 0 3 9 '278 0 2 10 "94 -270 252 0 2 6 1,274 0 12 10 Stock .. Stock in suspense Surveys Miscellaneous Opened 20,785 2,507 27,343 5,169 36,117 5,168 36,117 5,169 37,095 5,169 37,094 5,169 37,572 5,168 Total opened .. Total unopened 305,314 2 15 1 11.810,194 1,046,433 355,686 3 0 3 12,472,814 1,253,352 357,078 2 17 3 13,017,567 1,201,549 299,696 2 6 0 13,352,978 1,250,131 307,515 2 0 0 13,472,837 1,402,350 350,570 2 12 0 "13,899,955 1,264,803 412,782 2 19 5 10,478,998 930,481 360,526 3 8 10 11,078,501 1,147,629 2 2 2 412,782 2 14 5 Gross total 11,409,479 360,526 3 3 2 12,226,130 305,314 2 9 12,856,627 355,686 2 15 4 13,726,166 357,078 2 12 0 14,219,116 299,696 14,603,109 307,515 2 2 1 14,875,187 350,570 2 7 2 15,164,758