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Table No. 22. Table showing the Capital Cost, Working-expenses, and Revenue of the Telephone Exchanges, Year by Year, from the Date of their Establishment.

9 Capital Cost for Instruments, Wire, Poles, Labour, Freight, Superintendence, &c. Working-expenses. Tear. Kevenue. Balance of Bevenue over Workingexpenses. Annual Bate per Cent. yielded on Capital Cost. la ° Average Cost of each Connection. Salaries and Allowances of Clerks, &c. Materials and Linemen. * Wear-and-tear, &c. Rent, Fuel, Light, Paper, Printing, Binding, &c. Total (or all Connections. Total. 'otal for the year ended 31st March, — 1882 116 £ s. d. £ s. d. 21 16 6 2,531 14 0 £ s. d. 613 5 2 £ s. d. 285 0 0 £ s. d. 275 0 0 £ s. d. 253 0 0 £ s. d. 150 0 0 £ s. d. 963 0 0 £ a. d. 207 16 0 8-17 1883 379 21 16 6 j 8,271 13 6 5,014 9 2 595 0 0 595 0 0 827 0 0 300 0 0 2,317 0 0 4,492 8 8 54-31 1884 715 21 16 6 15,604 17 6 7,746 16 7 695 0 0 770 0 0 1,560 0 0 350 0 0 3,375 0 0 3,653 7 4 23-41 1885 1,075 21 18 6 ' 23,461 17 6 10,008 3 6 1,770 0 0 1,590 0 0 2,346 0 0 475 0 0 6,181 0 0 3,827 3 6 16-31 1886 1,710 20 8 6 | 37,319 12 1 12,294 1 2 I 2,849 1 3 1,704 0 0 3,731 19 2 700 0 0 8,985 0 5 5,011 19 7 13-42 1887 2,038 19 19 5 40,686 3 1 15,477 16 2 ii J 2,873 0 0 1,580 10 0 4,068 12 2 320 0 0 8,842 2 2 6,635 14 0 16-30 1888 2,153 22 19 0 49,407 5 0 16,881 8 6 3,119 10 0 2,252 0 0 4,940 14 6 330 0 0 10,642 4 6 6,239 4 1 12-63 1889 2,249 23 18 10 | 53,849 11 6 17,613 4 0 j 3,315 10 0 2,249 7 0 5,344 9 2 335 0 0 11,244 6 2 , 6,368 17 10 11-82 1890 2,402 24 4 1 ; 58,229 3 0 18,581 11 7 3,790 0 0 2,206 10 0 5,823 0 1 375 0 0 12,194 10 1 6,387 1 6 1100 1891 2,587 24 17 1 64,294 4 4 19,961 4 2 | 4,192 0 0 2,249 18 5 6,429 8 5 394 3 9 13,265 10 7 6,695 13 7 10-43 1892 3,080 24 16 11 ! 76,579 1 8 18,571 7 8 4,630 0 0 2,345 2 9 7,658 7 11 393 1 6 15,026 12 2 3,544 15 6 4-63 1893 3,690 24 16 11 91,687 11 1 24 12 1 104,425 3 0 19,155 11 5 7,405 0 0 2,695 19 10 9,168 15 1 464 6 2 19,734 1 1 - 578 9 8 Loss. 1894 4,244 21,771 4 4 I 7,720 0 0 3,313 1 1 10,442 10 4 741 18 9 22,217 10 2 -446 5 10 Loss. 1895 4,616 25 6 3 |116,845 10 4 24 6 6 |l25,108 4 1 21,552 12 10 ; 9,285 0 0 4,253 11 4 111,684 11 0 817 19 5 26,041 1 9 -3,420 1 9 Loss. 1896 5,143 25,933 12 9 \ 9,686 0 10 5,303 11 9 12,510 16 5 1,952 8 3 29,452 17 3 -3,519 4 6 Loss. 1897 5,747 23 7 4 134,299 11 4 29,248 19 5 [l2,306 9 7 7,398 0 10 1.3,429 19 1 1,856 13 2 34,991 2 8 -5,742 3 8| Loss. 1898 5,787 24 11 6 |l42,218 11 8 36,422 6 8 14,181 18 0 11,834 2 11 i 7,110 18 7 1,881 11 11 35,008 11 5 1,413 15 3 0-99 1899 .. .. .. .. 6,203 24 5 3 |150,490 18 9 39,718 7 7 15,030 7 1 16,190 4 0 7,524 10 11 1,861 2 3 40,606 4 3 -887 16 8 Loss. 1900 7,150 22 14 1 162,333 1 2 43,303 2 10 |l5,710 13 2 20,847 13 6 I 8,116 13 0 |l,892 10 8 46,567 10 4 -3,264 7 6 Loss. 1901 8,210 21 9 7 176,349 1 8 49,117 0 8 16,304 6 3 118,225 18 9 8,817 9 0 2,000 15 10 45,348 9 10 3,768 10 id 214 1902 9,260 20 18 0 193,511 6 2 20 2 6 213,966 10 8 55,542 4 9 18,448 3 5 20,570 0 9 9,675 11 9 2,078 12 10 50,772 8 9 4,769 16 0 2-46 1903 10,633 62,151 8 11 20,885 13 3 22,078 4 11 110,698 6 6 2,614 15 0 56,276 19 8 5,874 9 3 2-75 1904 12,105 19 19 8 |241,903 2 6 71,028 6 3 23,359 8 3 22,507 9 10 12,095 3 1 2,986 3 8 60,948 4 10 10,080 1 5 4-17 1905 14,423 21 19 7 (295,029 7 2 23 13 9 363,192 6 9 79,061 7 4 25,121 16 1 26,781 19 6 14,751 9 4 4,447 18 4 71,103 3 3 7,958 4 1 2-69 1906 15,333 89,542 1 5 J26.506 16 5 22,576 6 8 18,159 12 4 5,270 0 9 72,512 16 2 17,029 5 3 4-69 * This column includes 5 per cent, for wear-and-tear, and 5 per cent, for debenture capital, except in 1897-98 and following years, in which only 5 per cent, for debenture capital is included.