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INDEX OF EETUBNS ACCOMPANYING ANNUAL REPORT OP THE GENERAL MANAGER OP NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT RAILWAYS, 1897-98.

No. 1. Revenue accounts. 2. Expenditure account. 3. Detail of classified expenditure. 4. Classified expenditure and revenue. 5. Comparative statement of passenger and goods traffic. 6. Cost of construction and rate of interest. 7. Expenditure under vote "Additions to Open Lines." 8. Comparison of revenue and expenditure for eighteen financial years. 9. Statement of season tickets issued. 10. Classified maintenance expenditure. 11. Return of passenger bookings at excursion fares. 12. Revenue and expenditure of stations. 13. Carriage and wagon stock, and tarpaulins. 14. Locomotive stock. 15. Comparative statement of mileage, capital cost, earnings, and expenditure on colonial railways. 16. Stores contracts. 17. Weighing-machines. Weighbi-idges. Traversers and turntables. Cranes and pumps. 18. Renewals of rails. 19. Renewals of sleepers. 20. Number of stations and sidings. 21. Mileage of lines. 22. Sleepers laid and removed. 23. Number of employes. 24. Accidents. 25. Particulars of private-siding traffic. 26. Locomotive returns. 27. Traffic from coal-mines, Hurunui-Bluff. 28. Vessels loaded and discharged at different ports, Hurunui-Bluff. 29. Mileage of track, main line and sidings, Hurunui-Bluff. 30. Alterations in scale of charges.

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