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RETURN No. 7—continued. Locomotive Department: Particulars of Rolling-stock, Etc.

RETURN No. 8. Comparison of Traffic Revenue and Expenditure for the last Seventeen Financial Years.

RETURN No. 9. Statement of Season Tickets issued for the Year ended 31st March, 1897.

A. C. Fife.

Description of Stock ordered. Order. Number. Completed Incomplete on on 31st March, 1897. 31st March, 1897. Expenditure to 31st March, 1897. Locomotives, Class U Cars, Glass A .. Brake-vans, double-bogie, Class P .. Wagons, Class G, horse-boxes , Class H, cattle-trucks „ Class K, covered goods , Class L, high-sides „ ' Class R, bogie high-sides .. , Class U, platform „ Class W, frozen-meat „ ballast-hoppers .. A >! c l> E F G II J K L 4 32 2 6 5 10 185 11 20 2 25 17 10 78 5 4 15 2 6 5 107 6 20 £ s. d. 1,745 3 11 12,343 12 0 250 15 9 288 1 1 170 15 2 1,200 0 0 11,863 8 1 1,380 4 1 1,852 12 5 500 0 0 1,222 5 0 2 25 302 112 190 Compressed-gas lighting plant (part cost) Machinery for workshops Stores for new rolling-stock, to be built during year 1897-98 2,300 0 0 950 0 0 3,860 10 2 £39,927 7 8

Year. Expenditure j Miles. Revenue. Expenditure per cent, of j Tonnage. Revenue. Parcels, Cattle. c Horses, and Sheep, and Passengers. ~. e f s " u Dog.. Pigs. Ticket.. i88o-8i 1881-82 1882-83 1883-84 1884-85 1885-86 1886-87 1887-88 18S8-89 1889-90 1890-91 1891-92 1892-93 1893-94 1894-95 1895-96 1896-97 ■.277 I.3I9 1,358 1.396 1.477 1,613 1.727 i,7S8 1.777 1,809 1,842 1,869 1,886 1,948 1,993 2,014 2,018 £ 836,454 892,026 953,347 961,304 1,045,712 1,047,419 998,768 994,843 997,6i5 1,095.570 1,121,701 i,"5,432 1,181,522 1,172,793 1,150,851 1,183,041 1,286,158 £ 521,957 523,099 592,821 6 55,99O 690,026 690,340 699,072 687,328 647,04s 682,787 700,703 706,0 : 7 732,142 735.359 732,160 751,368 789,054 62-40 58-64 62-18 68-24 65'99 65-91 69-99 69-09 64-86 62-32 62-47 6 3'34 61-97 62-70 63-62 63-51 6i'35 ',377,783 M37.7H r ,564,793 1,700,040 1,749,856 1,823,767. 1,747,754 1,735,762 1,920,431 2 ,O73,955 2,086,011 2.066,791 2,193,330 2,060,645 2,048,391 2,087,798 2,368,927 No. 286,865 316,611 341,186 359.896 347.425 349,428 372,397 399,109 390,056 405,838 413074 430,216 460.383 486,787 479,683 489,177 524.063 No. 300,704 343.751 477,075 686,287 729,528 858,662 942,017 940,209 g^39 2 1.068,575 1,348,364 1,153.501 j>393.457 1,433-679 1,604,103 1,932,709 2,052,346 No. 2,849,561 2.9 1 1,477 3.283,378 3,272,644 3,232,886 3,362,266 3,426,403 3,451,850 3,132,803 3.376,459 3.433.629 3.555764 3,759,044 3.97 2 ,70i 3>9°5,578 4,162,426 4.439,387 No. 6,499 7,207 8,621 9.036 8,999 10,717 11,821 11,518 11,817 12,311 13,881 , 16,341 16,504 17,226 28,623 36,233 43,069

Description. No. Amount. Kemarks. All-lines tickets, travellers' All-lines tickets, reporters' Pourists' ... Fifty-trip com. ordinary Fifty-trip com. family School reaahers' Saturday ... Iwenty-trip com. ... Iwelve-trip workmen's All other season tickets 143 54 215 2,741 1,371 7,483 287 29 26,463 4,283 £ s. d. 6,979 8 6 543 0 11 1,522 10 0 1,870 3 0 1,981 4 0 4,094 4 1 332 12 0 20 8 4 4,422 19 6 9,709 10 5 Inaugurated 1st Oct., 1896. 43,069 31,475 15 9