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DETAILS OF THE ACCUMULATED DEFICIT FROM COMMENCEMENT OF OPERATIONS TO END OF 1928 $6,978,224.05.
Year. Net Earnings. Loss on Working. Interest debits on Wu Chang Loan, Cr. Agents and Advances and Special Expenditure. Loss by armed robbery. Various items not included in previous years (Debit). Income Account in the Annual Reports. Portion of Special Expenditure from 1917 to 1924 chargeable to revenue. Various items not included in previous years, (Credit). Transport of Government Passengers, goods and Rent of Railway Quarters for the year from 1925 (Credit). Depreciation on Rolling Stock prior to 1926 (Debit). Loss on property retired being the difference between original cost and scrap value of 437 telephone poles transferred to P.W.D. Pensions paid prior to 1926. Deficits. 1910 832.66 1911 24,845.14 1912 34,298.24 1913 87,824.74 1914 90,241.93 1915 46,503.11 1916 69,524.04 1917 90,814.98 1918 77,053.36 1919 73,060.63 1920 33,032.06 1921 75,989.71 1922 148,151.40 1923 48,791.35 1924 87,628.27 4,715,589.76 827,326.86 161,264.76 4,715,589.76 1925 99,323.18 417,191.43 1,703.61 139,827.11 213,115.84 4,049,527.66 47,081.34 8,987.44 1926 101,743.07 453,898.92 10,710.06 617,132.32 1927 2,344.56 492,298.41 695.33 815,092.39 1,162,750.58 11,483.65 1928 20,040.73 489,571.04 11,394.57 9,549.36 483,159.32 467,685.10 Total 847,367.59 364,675.57 6,568,549.56 1,703.61 139,827.11 213,115.84 47,081.34 42,575.72 617,132.32 9,549.36 695.33 6,978,224.05