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TABLE No. 11. STATEMENT showing the RECEIPTS and WORKING EXPENSES of NEW ZEALAND RAILWAYS for the Years 1877-78 and 1878-79.

* Eeturn Tickets counted as one Passenger. t Return and Saturday Tickets counted as two Passengers.

Particulars. 1877-78. 1878-79. Earnings. £ s. d. £ s. d. Passengers, Parcels, Carriages, &c. ... Merchandise and Live Stock Miscellaneous 255,051 18 1 281,238 19 1 33,607 11 1 355,6i8 5 4 381,044 5 o 2i>433 17 10 Total £569,898 8 3 758,096 8 2 Working Expenses. Maintenance Locomotive Power Repairs of Carriages and Waggons ... Tralllc Charges ... General Charges Sundries 130,913 5 4 99,948 10 4 20,348 17 1 134,256 5 10 18,757 16 11 1,670 18 7 193,295 3 5 137,774 1 2 32,547 12 9 157,960 10 1 22,503 10 1 1.397 17 6 Total 405,895 14 1 545.478 15 o Miles of Line open, average Number of Passengers Tonnage of Goods Train Miles Run Receipts per Mile of Line open Receipts per Train Mile Expenses per Train Mile ... Expenses per cent, of Receipts Average Capital invested on Lines open, inclusive of Interest thereon from approximate date of commencing Works to the opening ofthe Lines for Traffic ... Percentage on Capital furnished by the working of Lines Percentage of deficit furnished out of consolidated revenue 955 m •1,542,695 864,947 1,904,374 £596 os. od. — 87 5s. 1 id. — 74 4s. 3d. — 09 £71 os. od. — 32 i ,095 m. 65 ch. ■f-2,722,740 959.756 2,488,073 £691 os. od. — 91 6s. id. — 11 4s. 4d. — 64 £71 os. od. — 92 £7, 284,106 2-25 2'7S £8,362,332 2.4 2 "46