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RETURN No. 20. Statement of Sleepers relaid and removed during the Year ending 31st March, 1914.

RETURN No. 21. Return of Number of Stations and Private Sidings on each Section for the Year ending 31st March, 1914.

Description. ■si ■eg ? ell I 5 J5.£-g O a< I 1 I 2 S 21 5 , 74 60 3,417 14 '.'. I 423 i I ;; ;; j 5 c r6,866 152,235 24.237 445 6,257 63,490 1,338 711 40 445 Slbepbbs relaid :— Totara Jarrah Silver-pine Puriri Creosoted Ironbark Powellized Matai Birch Grey-gum Kauri 479 6,154 93.369 7,570 7 5 58,098 i 504 123 i 8,474 134 4,593 197 51 424 5,652 6,684 1,338 711 40 182 56,806 ] i " g _ 43 402 Total.. 8,978 4,727 79 3,935 256,054 715 881 121,525 115,209 Sleepeks bemoved : — Matai Totara Birch Jarrah Silver-pine Puriri Creosoted Ironbark Grey-gum Kauri Maire Blue-gum Rimu Kamai 44 io 135 - 403 134 81,856 9 11,442 6,232 21,848 22 391 2,926 3.928 436 5 10,835 24,308 9,712 16,994 35,073 1,786 9,910 451 1,131 121 7,941 4,877 65 J 3,146 '.'. 134 'i4 I 196 10,969 106,670 13,058 28,446 54,257 23,769 0,932 1,052 4,057 4,836 436 380 3,886 430 478 '380 3,886 Total .. 5 110,580 8,062 4,877 79 3,535 261,748 619 881 133,110 __j I

Number of Private Si idings. Sections. Number of Stations and .Lengtu. , stopping-places on S the Time-tables. At Stations. ! st °"i 0 ° f s . Total. Whangarei-Kawakawa Kaihu Gisborne North Island Main Line and Branches South Island Main Line and Branches Westland Westport Nelson Picton M. oh. 57 72 25 17 15 10 31 50 14 .. 1,100 50 391 .. 1,367 13 514 144 19 69 35 78 17 60 20 : 23 48 19 i 21 3 4 2 " 2 3 100 39 157 28 25 5 1 2 I I 7 2 5 139 185 30 3 4 5 Totals .. 2,863 16 1,084 2,863 16 1,084 295 85 380