RETURN No. 20. Statement of Sleepers relaid and removed during the Year ending 31st March, 1912.

RETURN No. 21. Return of Number of Stations and Private Sidings on each Section for the Year ending 31st March, 1912.

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Description. ii as M 1 -3 C rt . si v £ Ip: I -o = a ce . £ u 8 ¥ I i l £ s Slebpbbs belaid : — Totara Jarrah Silver-pine Puriri Creosoted Ironbark Powellized Kauri Birch 594 464 23,073 90 .. 64,636 .. 2 .. 2 389 .. 336 10,226 .. I .. 1,378 39,887 !! 30 23,073 64,636 2 336 10,226 1,378 39,887 78 78 84,345 6 .. 292 5,635 10,234 .. 2,086 ' 10 898 774 130 33,711 5 181 ! 2,723 '82 70 24,214 149,550 20,682 725 10,236 3,262 73,668 30 5,016 5,016 Total .. 1,105 464 139,538 139,538 78 78 129,615 11,014 130 2,378 3,061 287,383 Sleepers removed :— Matai Totara Birch Jarrah Silver-pine Puriri Creosoted Ironbark Grey-gum Kauri Maire Blue-gum Rimu Kamai Powellized 97 212 127 86,865 130 11,321 99 .. 2,417 568 .. 31,309 1,185 1,100 28 '.'. 2U 337 I 266 17 3,794 .. 37 !! .. '.'. 161 97 86,865 78 130 11,321 2,417 31,309 1,185 1,100 28 266 .. 17 3,794 37 78 16,905 32,020 9,519 1,385 10,332 24,497 7,649 6,988 16,815 408 605 .. 29 3 27 375 ■• ' I "' 130 1,422 .320 63 2,528 444 17,005 119,392 13,937 21,660 36,658 39,185 18,000 1,608 633 848 17 4,052 37 493 161 258 i .. 493 iei Total .. 1,095 464 138,727 i 78 118,869 9,034 130 2,154 : 3,035 273,586

Number of Stations and on the Time-tables. Mural ier of Private Si Ldfngs. Sections. Miles chains. Out of Stations. i At Stations. Total. Whangarei-Kawakawa Kaihu Gisborne North Island Main Line and Branches South Island Main Line and Branches Westland Westport Nelson Picton 57 72 17 15 23 51 .. 1,083 12 .. 1,358 42 141 13 30 17 47 55 48 19 23 9 12 386 509 65 16 20 '20 2 2 72 143 23 4 3 4 4 •2 2 51 ■27 8 6 2 4 123 170 31 4 4 6 ' 1 1 Totals .. 2,807 56 1,060 253 96 349