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Table No. 20. 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. 5 J Capital Cost for Instruments, Wire, Poles, Labour, Freight, Superintendence, &c. Average Cost of Total for all each Con- Connections, nection. Revenue. Working-expenses. Salaries and Materials Fuel * Light, Allowances of and \S a ' a f Paper, Total. Clerks. &c. Linemen. ™? Printing, tear.ac. Binding, &c. Working-expenses. Auuual Balance of Rate Revenue per Cent. — over yielded Working- on expenses. Capital Cost. Total for the year ended 31st March, — 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 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 20,402t 22,815t 25,212f .. 28,093 31,475 ... 36,374 41,982 46,260 50,308 52,986 57,196 61,298 .. , 68,203 £ s. d. £ 21 16 6 2,531 21 16 6 8,271 21 16 6 15,604 21 18 6 23,461 20 8 6 37,319 19 19 5 40,686 22 19 0 49,407 23 18 10 53,849 24 4 1 58,229 24 17 1 64,294 24 16 11 76,579 24 16 11 91,687 24 12 1 104,425 25 6 3 116,845 24 6 6 125,108 23 7 4 134,299 24 11 6 142,218 24 5 3 150,490 22 14 1 162,333 21 9 7 176,349 20 18 0 193,511 20 2 6 213,966 19 19 8 241,903 21 19 7 295,029 23 13 9 363,192 24 2 2 420,088 24 18 4 508,408 25 18 9 591,760 27 2 7 683,986 27 17 S 783,382 27 18 0 878,133 27 11 7 1,003,131 29 11 6 1,241,628 32 9 1 1,501,482 33 2 7 1,666,561 34 7 3 1,820,860 35 6 3 2.019,892 35 15 11 2,194,238 39 3 7 ' 2,401,671 613 5,014 7,746 10,008 12,294 15,477 16,881 17,613 18,581 19,961 18,571 19,155 21,771 21,552 25,933 29,248 36,422 39,718 43,303 49,117 55,542 62,151 71,028 79,061 89,542 100,814 116,852 131,249 144,298 161,173 179,123 201,237 232,190 303,856J 287,547 317,275 344,368 373,169 419,318 | £ £ £ £ £ 285 275 253 150 963 595 595 827 300 2,317 695 770 1,560 350 3,375 1,770 1,590 2,346 475 6,181 2,849 1,704 3,732 700 8,985 2,873 1,580 4,069 320 8,842 3,119 2,252 4,941 330 10,642 3,316 2,249 5,344 335 11,244 3,790 2,206 5,823 375 12,194 4,192 2,249 6,429 395 13,265 4,630 2,345 7,658 393 15,026 7,405 2,696 9,169 464 19,734 7,720 3,313 10,442 742 22,217 9,285 4,253 11,685 818 26,041 9,686 5,304 12,510 1,952 29,452 12,306 7,398 13,430 1,857 34,991 14,181 11,834 7,111 1,882 35,008 15,030 16,190 7,525 1,861 40,606 15,710 20,847 8,117 1,893 46,567 16,304 18,226 8,817 2,001 45,348 18,448 20,570 9,675 2,079 50,772 20,885 22,078 10,698 2,615 56,276 23,359 22,508 12,095 2,986 60,948 25,122 26,782 14,751 4,448 71,103 26,507 22,576 18,159 5,270 72,512 32,914 26,145 21,004 6,163 86,226 38,108 36,813 -25,420 6,902 107,243 47,224 32,995 29,588 7.265 117,072 52,315 28,755 34,199 7,741 123,010 54,819 39,814 39,169 8,031 141,833 62,588 33,791 43,907 8,725 149,011 69,078 42,192 50,156 9,764 171,190 80,720 53,823 62,081 11,744 208,368 88,231 42,548 75,074 12,878 218,731 104,950 62,682 83,328 13,429 264,389 97,681 71,022 91,043 15,115 274,861 97,665 87,664 100,994 16,765 303,088 111,796 110.271 101,712 20,087 351,866 154,335 130,822 ! 2C9,084 33,104 438,345 207 8-17 4,492 54-31 3,653 23-41 3,827 16-31 5,011 13-42 6,635 16-30 6,239 12-63 6,368 11-82 6,387 1100 6,695 10-43 3,544 4-63 -578 Loss. — 446 Loss. -3,420 Loss. -3,519 Loss. — 5,742 Loss. 1,413 0-99 — 887 Loss. -3,264 Loss. 3.768 2-14 4.769 2-46 5,874 2-75 10,080 4-17 7,958 2-69 17,029 4-69 14,587 3-47 9,608 1-89 14,176 2-40 21,287 311 19,340 2-46 30,112 3-43 30,047 2-99 23,822 1-92 85,125 5-67 23.158 1-40 42,414 2-33 41,280 2 04 21,303 0-97 I -19.027 Loss. * This column includes 5 per cent, for wear-aud-tear and 5 per cent, for debenture capital, except in 1897-98 and following years, in which only 5 per cent, for debenture capital is included. t Informer returns extensions were included for these three years. 1 Increase due to alterations in date of collecting half-yearly subscriptions, a proportion of which under the old system would have fallen into 1915-16 receipts.