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RETURN No. 16. Return showing the Mileage, Capital Cost, Traffic, Revenue, and Expenditure of the New Zealand Government Railways from 1st April, 1914, to 31st March, 1921. MILEAGE, CAPITAL COST, TRAFFIC, AND REVENUE.

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Year. Miles. Capital Cost. Tj Passengers. Season Tickets. Coaching. Cattle. Sheep. PigsNo. Revenue No. Revenue. Revenue. I 302,912 330,622 355,832 322,487 351,124 400,621 464,691 £ 153,150 156,322 155,201 138,675 150,901 165,596 198,717 £ 227,521 236,705 243,832 254,110 258,524 290,453 335,754 1914-1915 1915-1916 1916-1917 1917-1918 1918-1919 1919-1920 1920-1921 2,955 2,970 2,970 2,993 2,993 3,006 3,018 £ 34,133,825 34,857,882 35,378,664 36,001,432 36,167,681 36,390,115 37,235,254 I 9,383,420 9,356,522 9,146,331 7,468,646 7,477,583 7,408,608 9,303,392 13,565,772 14,201,506 14,173,115 11,408,156 11,374,521 12,760,814 15,315,640 £ 1,329,233 1,566,380 1,717,847 1,663,922 1,799,381 2,138,391 2,459,362 No. 314,219 371,529 402, 769 362, 134 346,544 357,976 376,745 No. 6,923,306 7,204,826 7,106,174 6,356,361 6,568,032 7,209,246 7,010,598 No. 163,155 182,443 163,370 145,729 123,728 107,310 118,624 Year. Timber. Minerals. Other Goods Total. Goods Eevenue. Miscellaneous Revenue. Rents and Commission. Total Revenue. Revenue per Train-mile. 1914-1915 1915-1916 1916-1917 1917-1918. 1918-1919 1919-1920 1920-1921 I :: I Tons. 621,963 625,866 579,428 523,784 487,729 611,171 717,701 I Tons. 2,988,028 2,831,959 2,787,523 2,572,576 2,444,007 2,300,760 2,515,464 Tons. 2,466,836 2,504,439 2,459,314 2,276,776 2,306,721 2,685,301 2,852,195 Tons. 6,076,827 5,962,264 5,826,265 5,373,136 5,238,457 5,597,232 6,085,360 £ 2,249,399 2,423,493 2,498,862 2,465,241 2,608,336 2.956,237 3,676,665 £ 69,646 81,391 98,473 78,761 78,828 105,072 136,505 £ 76,508 84,065 86,595 86,991 92,662 96,738 101,528 £ 4,105,457 4,548,356 4,800,810 4,687,700 4,988,632 5,752,437 6,908,531 i d. 104-75 116-50 125-75 150-50 160-00 186-00 178-00 EXPENDITURE. Year. Expenditure Expenditure per per Cent. Train-mile. of Revenue. Per Cent, of Revenue. Maintenance of Way. Per Mile of Railway. Per Train-mile. Amount. Locomotive Power. Per Cent, of Per Revenue. Train-mile. • Amount. Carriages and Wagons. Per Cent, of Per He venue. Train-mile. Amount. 1914-1915 1915-1916 1916-1917 1917-1918 1918-1919 1919-1920 1920-1921 d. 74-54 74-50 76-63 9754 105-97 132-72 145-14 £ 71-14 64-00 60-97 64-91 66-32 71-36 81-59 £ 738,550 740,349 720,840 710,655 752,558 837,910 1,053,049 £ 17-99 16-30 1504 15-18 15-10 14-59 15-26 £ 254-02 25100 243-52 239-54 252-28 280-54 349-97 a. 18-89 18-99 18-92 22-84 24-16 27-14 27-17 £ 954,868 934,737 937,780 962,222 1,075,489 1,397,993 2,124,877 £ 23-26 20-58 19-56 20 56 21-59 24-34 30-80 d. 24-42 23-9S 24-61 30-92 34-52 45-29 54-8-2 £ 228,145 225,968 238,868 283,248 306,308 387,498 531,935 £ 5-56 4-98 4-98 6-05 6-15 6-74 7-71 d. 5'-84 5-79 6-27 910 9-83 12-55 13-72 Year. Amount. Traffic. Per Cent, of Per Revenue. Train-mile. Traffic. Head and Amount. Head and Departmental Offices. d Departmental Offices. Per Cent, of | Per Revenue. Train-mile. Lake Wakatipu Steamers. Lake Wakati Amount. ipu Steamers. Per Cent, of Revenue. Total Expenditure. 1914-1915 1915-1916 1916-1917 1917-1918 1918-1919 1919-1920 1920-1921 £ 870,392 889,991 904,318 954,142 1,032,609 1,301,935 1.712,375 £ 21-20 I960 18-87 20-38 20-73 22-66 24-82 I d. 22-26 22-83 23- 73 30-66 33-14 42-17 44-17 £ 122,415 113,461 118,456 124.976 134,626 171,767 203,906 2-98 2-50 2-47 2-67 2-70 2-99 2-95 d. 313 2-91 310 4-02 4-32 5-57 5-26 £ 6,085 6,377 6,602 7,664 6,985 7,964 10,458 £ 88-83 8804 9189 112-53 104-53 101-09 116-34 !' £ 2,920,455 2,910,883 2,926,864 3,042,907 3,308,575 4,105,067 5,636,601