CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6]

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The ordinary office clerk, small shop keeper and the house boy class generally pay 1/50 of 1/20 for the trip to Canton and I see no difficulty in obtaining all this traffic and running them at 1 cent per mile to Canton.

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Then the traffic is taken from the steamers, it will not pay them to run the 35 cent coolie. I think these coolies could be charged 90 cents for the trip or say -75 cents per mile.

Then assuming that the traffic is bound to increase, a moderate estimate of the traffic to be expected from the passengers between Hong Kong and Canton on the Railway is as follows for the British Section only:-

2nd-class passengers at -/01.02 per mile 22 miles $2.20 500 3rd. -/00.75 1700 $12.75 4th. -/00.50 3000 $15.00 Total receipts. $29.95

This ignores any receipts from 1st. class passengers. The actual cost of running these passengers is as follows:-

500 2nd-class at ~/00.75 $3.75 1700 3rd. at -/00.5 $8.50 3000 4th. # at -/00.45 $13.50 Total $25.75 per mile 22 miles $566.50 Working expenses $566.50 Profit $522.50

The passengers to San Chun number 150 per day each way and taking these at 50 - 3rd class at 14 cents per mile and 100 - 4th class at 1 cent per mile the gross earnings and are as follows:-

3rd. class 4th. class Gross Earnings $11.00 $16.50 $44.00 Working Expenses $19.80 Profit $24.20 Total $30.80 $40.70

The passengers to and from Taipo and for Sha U Ching via Taipo can be taken at 250 per day each way of which 175 are for Sha U Ching.

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