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Working-expenses and Revenue Account for the .Year ended 31st March, 1924. To Working-expenses— j By Revenue — £ s. d. . Maintenance of way, works, and £ s. d. Passengers, ordinary .. .. 2,133,268 5 1 buildings .. .. .. 1,143,281 10 7 Season tickets .. .. 212,380 2 4 Signal and electrical works .. 70,911 11 5 Parcels, luggage, and mails .. 405,657 11 4 Locomotive power .. .. 1,893,155 18 5 Goods .. .. .. 3,949,586 17 10 Carriages and wagons—Repairs and . Miscellaneous .. .. .. 136,945 16 3 renewals .. .. .. 550,902 5 11 Refreshment-room services .. 5,000 0 0 Traffic expenses .. .. 1,530,651 15 1 Rents and commission .. .. 125,065 17 2 Head Office .. .. .. 58,997 16 2 Advertising at stations .. .. 7,433 16 10 Departmental offices .. .. 145,409 110 Lake Wakatipu steamers .. 8,872 5 0 Lake Wakatipu steamors .. 10,455 13 0 Total working-expenses .. 5,403,765 12 5 Balance .. .. .. 1,580,444 19 5 £6,984,210 11 10 £0,984,210 11 10 Net Revenue Account for the Year ended 31st March, 1924. To Interest for the year 1923-24 on By Net earnings for the year after £ s. d. cost proportionately to the time payment of working-expenses .. 1,580,444 19 5 during which lines taken over within the year were revenue - earning— £ s. d. 3{ per cent, on £41,297,144 .. 1,548,642 18 0 Surplus for the year .. 31,802 1 5 £1,580,444 19 5 £1,580,444 19 5 Working-expenses and Revenue Account (Advertising Branch), Year ended 31st March, 1924. Working-expenses. £ s. d. £ s. d. Revenue. £ s. d. To Office —Salaries, wages, al- By Advertising, signs, printing, &c. .. 23,675 6 9 lowances, stores, station- Sale of poster stamps .. .. 48 15 0 cry, and other charges.. 3,237 9 0 Advertisements in special time-tables 349 10 4 Linemen —■ Wages, allowances, and stores .. 2,055 2 10 Working-expenses of studio —Wages, material, &0... 6,490 0 9 Canvassers—Salaries, commission, and allowances 2,996 19 1 Making and repairing advertisements .. .. 856 19 5 Repairs to building and plant .. .. 205 7 5 , 15,841 18 6 Railway revenue— Rent .. .. 196 0 0 Commission on collections 601 16 9 797 16 9 Total working-expenses .. .. 16,639 15 3 Balance carried to General Revenue Account 7,433 16 10 £24,073 12 1 £24,073 12 1 Working-expenses and Revenue Account (Refreshment-room Services), Year ended 31st March, 1924. Working-expenses. £ s. d. Revenue. £ s. d. To Salaries and wages .. .. .. 28,027 5 9 By Balance brought forward, Ist April, Provisions consumed .. .. 42,140 2 8 1923 .. .. ... .. 5,580 1 9 Renewals to replace crockery broken Total receipts from sale of provisions, and lost .. .. .. .. 2,613 7 2 &c, in refreshment-rooms.. .. 96,341 13 8 Rail freights .. .. .. 2,736 13 2 Lighting, fuel, and water .. .. 1,857 5 5 Rents .. .. .. .. 5,586 14 3 Repairs and maintenance of refreshmentrooms including expenditure on buildings, furniture, and plant .. ..11,851 0 9 Depreciation .. .. .. 808 9 0 Miscellaneous .. .. .. 1,300 17 3 Total working-expenses .. .. 96,921 15 5 Balance carried to General Revenue Account 5,000 0 0 £101,921 15 5 £101,921 15 5 L. Hamann, Chief Accountant.