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GENERAL.
39. The Railway Police co-operated well with the Traffic staff, 629 convictions for various offences against the railway being recorded during the year. These were principally in respect of evading payment of fares, trespassing by unlicensed hawkers, the sale of black market tickets and obstruction by loitering.
year.
40. There was no alteration to rates and fares during the
ACCOUNTS GENERAL.
41. The working results of the past three years are as follows:-
Nett Operating
Year
1947/48 1948/49
1949/50
Gross Receipts
Operating
Expenses
$6,431,252.29
$3,302,465.42
7,075,991.75
3,480,090.70
7,783,348.81 3,554,899.47
Revenue
$3,128,786.87
3,595,901.05
4,228,449.34
42. Receipts and Expenditure under the most important heads in the Operating Account, are as follows for the past three years:-
OPERATING RECEIPTS.
Heads
1947/48
1948/49
1949/50
Passenger Service,
Passenger Other
$5,129,206.43
$6,076,999.98
$6,344,845.16
167,485.47
118,438.56
116,588.36
Goods service, Goods
618,634.42
269,614.73
658,436.05
Goods service, Other
Profit on Central
15,206.60
40,554.66
102,618.95
Mechanical Works
50,276.19
56,327.87
18.392.16
Rents
137,768.87
141,616.87
352,179.37
Incidental Revenue
149,139.37
225,263.83
141,869.14
Auxiliary Operation Foreign
Haulage
150,674.94
2,525.25
23,569.52
Interchange of Rolling
Stock
12,860.00
144,650.00
24,849.50
OPERATING EXPENDITURE.
Heads
1947/48
1948/49
General Expenses
$ 305,316.90 $ 298,771.35
Traffic Expenses
466,677.06
495,590.71
Running Expenses
1,346,110.62
1,210,917.91
Maintenance of Equipment Maintenance of Way &
658,678.24
821,550.63
Structures
525,682.60
653,260.10
1949/50
$ 365,127.62
530,432.97 1,176,973.85 932,727.94
549,637.09
43. Services rendered by the Workshops for other than the department's own requirements, were of the following order:
1947/48
Canton-Hankow Railway $ 148,745.00
Government Departments Outside Concerns
...
31,534.00 24,405.00
1948/49 $ 108,347.00 51,290.00 21,068.00
1949/50 $ 35,006.00
68,346.00 15,666.00