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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

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5 J a O Capital Cost for Instruments, Wire, Poles, : Labour, Freight, Superintendence, &c. svenue. Working-expenses. Balance of .Revenue over Workingexpenses. Annual Kate per Cent. yielded on Capital Cost. Year. Average i Cost of each Connection. Total for all ! Connections. Salaries and Allowances of Clerks, &c. j Materials and Linemen. Kent, Fuel, Wear-and- Light, Paper, tear, &c* ' Printing, : Binding, &c. I Total. Total for tho year prided 31 st March, — 1882 .. 1883 .. .. 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 .... 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 •'I ■ £ s. d. 116 21 16 6 379 21 16 6 \ 715 21 16 6 1,075 21 18 6 1,710 I 20 8 6 2,038 19 19 5 2,153 ! 22 19 0 2,249 ; 23 18 10 2,402 ! 24 4 1 2,587 I 24 17 1 3,080 J 24 16 11 3,690 24 16 11 4,244 ] 24 12 1 4.616 25 6 3 5,143 ! 24 6 6 5,747 > 23 7 4 5,787 ' 24 11 6 6,203 i 24 5 3 j 7,150 : 22 14 I I 8,210 21 9 7 9,260 20 18 0 10,633 20 2 6 12,105 19 19 8 14,423 21 19 7 15,333 ' 23 13 9 17,403 24 2 2 20,402f: 24 18 4 22,815f! 25 18 9 :25,212t 27 2 7 128,093 27 17 8 131.475 27 18 0 £ s. d. £ s. d. 2,531 14 0 613 5 2 8,271 13 6 ! 5,014 9 2 15,604 17 6 J 7,746 16 7 23,461 17 6 i 10,008 3 6 37,319 12 1 ; 12,294 1 2 40.686 3 1 ! 15,477 16 2 49,407 5 0 ' 16,881 8 6 53,849 11 6 17,613 4 0 58,229 3 0 18,581 11 7 64,294 4 4 19,961 4 2 76,579 1 8 18,571 7 8 91.687 11 1 19,155 11 5 104,425 3 0 i 21,771 4 4 L16,845 10 4 : 21,552 12 10 125,108 4 1 I 25,933 12 9 134,299 11 4 i 29,248 19 5 L42.218 11 8 i 36,422 6 8 L50,490 18 9 > 39,718 7 7 L62,333 1 2 ! 43,303 2 10 176,349 1 8 i 49,117 0 8 193,511 6 2 ! 55,542 4 9 213,966 10 8 ; 62.151 8 11 ■241,903 2 6 ' 71,028 6 3 295,029 7 2 : 79,061 7 4 363,192 6 9 89,542 1 5 420,088 12 1 ,100,814 1 3 508,408 7 8 116,852 13 10 591,760 0 7 131,249 0 7 683,986 11 1 144,298 2 9 783,382 15 4 161, 173 6 10 378,133 8 7 179.123 18 8 £ s. d. 285 0 0 595 0 0 695 0 0 1,770 0 0 2,849 1 3 2,873 0 0 3,119 10 0 3,315 10 0 3,790 0 0 4,192 0 0 4,630 0 0 7,405 0 0 7,720 0 0 9,285 0 0 9,686 0 10 12,306 9 7 14,181 18 0 15,030 7 1 15,710 13 2 16,304 6 3 18,448 3 5 20,885 13 3 23,359 8 3 25,121 16 1 26,506 16 5 32,913 16 8 38,107 12 8 47,224 7 0 52,315 1 8 54,818 13 10 62,588 11 10 £ s. d. 275 0 0 595 0 0 770 0 0 1,590 0 0 1,704 0 0 1,580 10 0 2.252 0 0 2,249 7 0 2,206 10 0 2,249 18 5 2,345 2 9 2,695 19 10 3,313 1 1 4.253 11 4 5,303 11 9 7,398 0 10 11,834 2 11 16,190 4 0 20,847 13 6 18,225 18 9 20,570 0 9 22,078 4 11 22,507 9 10 26,781 19 6 22,576 6 8 ■26,145 3 4 36.813 9 6 32,995 2 4 28,755 11 11 39.814 5 4 33,791 4 1 £ s. d. 253 0 0 827 0 0 1,560 0 0 2,346 0 0 3,731 19 2 4,068 12 2 4,940 14 6 5,344 9 2 5,823 0 1 6,429 8 5 7,658 7 11 9,168 15 1 10,442 10 4 11,684 11 0 12,510 16 5 13,429 19 1 7,110 18 7 7,524 10 11 8,116 13 0 8,817 9 0 9,675 11 9 10,698 6 6 12,095 3 1 14,751 9 4 18,159 12 4 21,004 8 7 ■25,420 8 5 29,588 0 0 34,199 6 7 39,169 2 9 43,906 13 5 £ s. d. 150 0 0 300 0 0 350 0 0 475 0 0 700 0 0 320 0 0 330 0 0 335 0 0 375 0 0 394 3 9 393 1 6 464 6 2 741 18 9 817 19 5 1,952 8 3 1,856 13 2 1,881 11 11 1,861 2 3 1,892 10 8 ■2,000 15 10 2,078 12 10 2,614 15 0 2,986 3 8 4,447 18 4 5,270 0 9 6,162 18 1 6,902 8 6 7,264 18 5 7,740 18 1 8,031 0 7 3,724 19 2 £ s. d. 963 0 0 2,317 0 0 3,375 0 0 6,181 0 0 8,985 0 5 8,842 2 2 10,642 4 6 11,244 6 2 12,194 10 1 13,265 10 7 15,026 12 2 19,734 1 1 22,217 10 2 26,041 1 9 29,452 17 3 34,991 2 8 35,008 11 5 40,606 4 3 46,567 10 4 45,348 9 10 50,772 8 9 56,276 19 8 60,948 4 10 71,103 3 3 72,512 16 2 86,226 6 8 107,243 19 1 117,072 7 9 123.010 18 3 141,833 2 6 149.011 8 6 £ s. d. 207 16 0 4,492 8 8 3,653 7 4 3,827 3 6 5,011 19 7 6,635 14 0 6,239 4 1 6,368 17 10 6,387 1 6 6,695 13 7 3,544 15 6 -578 9 8 -446 5 10 -3,420 1 9 -3,519 4 6 -5,742 3 3 1,413 15 3 -887 16 8 -3,264 7 6 3.768 10 10 4.769 16 0 5,874 9 3 10,080 1 5 7,958 4 1 17,029 5 3 14,587 14 7 9,608 14 9 14,176 12 10 21,287 4 6 19,340 4 4 30,112 10 S 8-17 54-31 23-41 16-31 13-42 16-30 12-63 11-82 11-00 10 43 463 Loss. Loss. Loss. Loss. Loss. 0-99 Loss. Loss. 2-14 2-46 2-75 4-17 2-69 4-69 347 1-89 2-40 3-11 2-46 3-43 * This column includes 5 pei- cent, for wear-aud-tear, and S per cent, for debenture capital, except in 1R97-98 and following years, in which only 5 per cent, for debenture capital is included. extensions were included for these three years. t In former returns