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RETURN No. 31. HURUNUI-BLUFF SECTION. Showing Mileage of Track in Main Line and Sidings open for Traffic on 31st March, 1904, on the Hurunui-Bluff Railway and Branches

RETURN NO. 32. Statement of Alteeations in and Additions to Scale of Chaeges during the Year ended 31st March, 1904. PART I.—PASSENGERS. Local Faces and Eegulations. Hurunui-Bluff Section. Through booking rail and steamer between Dunedin and Portobello : Steamer fare increased PART lI.—PARCELS, HORSES, ETC. Corpses : Bate for corpses by mail and express trains inserted. Through booking between stations on the Auckland Section and ports on the Manukau Harbour : Bates inserted. Through booking between stations on the Auckland Section and Kaipara ports: Bate for fourwheeled vehicles amended. PART III.—GOODS: REGULATIONS. Starving stock; and hay, straw, chaff, grain, green fodder, and ensilage : Eegulations for free conveyance inserted. Exhibitions : Eegulations for free conveyance of exhibits to and from the Wairarapa and Hawera Exhibitions inserted.

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Main Line. Sidings. Total Equivalent of Single Track. Line of Railway. Branches. Total Railway. Single. Double. Main Line. Branches. Total. Ohbistchubch Division : — Main Line Rangiora-Sheffield and Eyreton Junction-Bennett's Waipara-Scargill Southbridge and Little River Branches Springfield and Whitecliffs Branches [Branch Rakaia and Ashburton Forks Mount Somers Branch Albury Branch Waimate Branch M. ch. 211 57 M. ch. e 28 M. oh. M. oh. 218 5 M. ch. 75 4i M.. ch. M. ch. 75 4i M. oh. 293 46 ' 58 16 S3 5<5 4 40 14 40 48 7 1 2 5 49 15 42 S3 S6 47 4 •262 3 5 o -25 64 52 4 22 20 27 36 36 13 12 67 2 70 1 70 2 57 2 16 25 10 29 26 38 70 ■ 15 3 Totals, Ohristchurch Division 211 57 6 28 262 3 480 8 75 4i 25 64 101 25 5Si 33 Dukedin Division : — Main Line Diintroon Branch ... Oamaru-Breakwater Branch Ngapara& Livingston Branches Shag Point Branch ... Waihemo Branch ... Port Chalmers Branch Walton Park Branch Pernhill Branch Otago Central Railway Outram Branch Lawrence Branch ... Catlin's River Branch 165 40 37 4i 0 63 27 4 2 10 8 65 1 26 2 49 1 57 97 72 9 o 22 1 165 40 56 79 2 79 o 25 2 14 o 14 o 63 3 6 5 o 52 o 23 6 17 0 65 1 67 k 1 57 S6 79 222 39 40 40 1 8 29 18 2 24 9 48 5 11 3 21 2 o 104 9 9 65 23 68 21 4 ,-230 IS •21 61 19 2 7 Totals, Dunedin Division ... 165 40 230 IS 395 SS S 6 79 21 61 78 60 474 3SE IlTVEEOABeiLL DIVISION : — Main Line Tapauui Branch Wianiea Plains Branch Wyndham Branch ... Seaward Bush Branch Kingston Branch Makarewa-Orepuki Branch ... Thornbury-Wairio and WairioNiglitcaps Branches Forest Hill Railway Lumsden-Mararoa Branch ... 82 4i 20 4 36 41 9 35 25 39 87 o 40 16 24 5 1 82 41 26 41 2 4 3 6 o 45 2 o 8 59 6 i 7 3 10 z6 41 109 2 22 8 39 47 10 0 27 39 95 59 46 33 27 6i ■266 53 .27 61 12 66 10 41 0 77 1 3 ! 3 63 11 44 Totals, Invercargill Division 82 41 266 53 349 14 26 41 27 61 54 22 4°3 36 Grand Totals—Whole Line 459 58 6 28 758 71 75 26 1,224 77 159 1 234 27 j>459 24