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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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Year. 2-2 j= a Capital Cost for Instruments, Wire, Poles, Labour, Freight. Superintendence, &c. Average Cost of Total for all each Con- Connections, nection. Revenue. Salaries and Allowances of Clerks, <fto. I Materials and Linemen. Working-expenses. Kent, Fuel, Wear-and- Light, Paper, tear, &c* Printing, : Binding, &c. Balance of .Revenue over Workingexpenses. Annual Kate per Cent. yielded on Capital Cost. Total. Total for the year ended 31st March, — 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 .. .. .. . k 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 .. .. .. .. ' 1910 1911 1912 1913 116 379 715 1,075 1,710 2,038 2,153 2,249 2,402 2,587 3,080 3,690 4,244 4,616 5,143 5,747 5,787 6,203 7,150 8,210 9,260 10,633 12,105 14,423 15,333 17,403 20,402f 22,815t ■25,212f 28,093 31,475 36,374 £ s. d. 21 16 6 21 16 6 21 16 6 21 18 6 20 8 6 19 19 5 22 19 0 23 18 10 24 4 1 24 17 1 24 16 11 24 16 11 24 12 1 25 6 3 24 6 6 23 7 4 24 11 6 24 5 3 22 14 1 21 9 7 20 18 0 20 2 6 19 19 8 21 19 7 23 13 9 24 2 2 24 18 4 25 18 9 27 2 7 27 17 8 27 18 0 27 11 7 £ b. d.| 2,531 14 0 8,271 13 6 15,604 17 6 23,461 17 6 37,319 12 1 40.686 3 1 49,407 5 0 53,849 11 6 58,229 3 0 64,294 4 4 76,579 1 8 91.687 11 1 104,425 3 0 116,845 10 4 125,108 4 1 134,299 11 4 142,218 11 8 150,490 18 9 162,333 1 2 176,349 1 8 193,511 6 2 213,966 10 8 241,903 2 6 295,029 7 2 363,192 6 9 420,088 12 1 508,408 7 8 591,760 0 7 683,986 11 1 783,382 15 4 878,133 8 7 1,003,131 5 4 £ s. d. 613 5 2 5,014 9 2 7,746 16 7 10,008 3 6 12,294 1 2 15,477 16 2 16,881 8 6 17,613 4 0 18,581 11 7 19,961 4 2 18,571 7 8 19,155 11 5 21,771 4 4 21,552 12 10 25,933 12 9 29,248 19 5 36,422 6 8 39,718 7 7 43,303 2 10 49,117 0 8 55,542 4 9 62,151 8 11 71,028 6 3 79,061 7 4 89,542 1 5 100,814 1 3 116,852 13 10 131,249 0 7 144,298 2 9 :IG1, 173 6 10 179,123 18 8 [201, 237 7 3 £ 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 69,078 1 1 £ 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 42.191 16 9 £ 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 U 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 50 156 11 3 £ 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 31 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 8,724 19 2 i9,763 15 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 6 171,190 4 3 £ 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 19,310 4 4 30,112 10 2 30,047 3 0 8-17 54-31 2341 16-31 13-42 16-30 12-63 11-82 11-00 10-43 4-63 Loss. Loss. Loss. Loss. Loss. 0-99 Loss. Loss. 2-14 2-46 2-75 4-17 2-69 4-69 3 47 1-89 2-40 311 2-46 3-43 2-99 * This column includes 5 per cent, for wear-and-tear and 5 per cent, for debenture capital, except in 1897-98 and following years, t In former returns extensions were included for these three years. which only 5 per cent, for debenture capital is included.