FINANCIAL RETURN No. 4.-Contd.
THE PRINCIPAL INCREASES AND DECREASES IN REVENUE OVER THE AMOUNTS ESTIMATED WERE AS FOLLOWS:-
Heads and Sub-Heads. Estimated. Actual. Increase. Decrease. Explanatory Remarks. G.-KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY. MAIN LINE. RJ. Passenger Service, Passenger, Foreign Line, 450,000 827,859.41 377,859.41 Increased population of New Territories. R1. Passenger Service, Passenger, Home Line, 380,000 607,459.95 227,459.95 R2. Passenger Service, Others, Foreign Line, 8,000 8,000.00 Through services suspended. R2. Passenger Service, Others, Home Line, 3,000 3,000 R3. Goods Service, Goods Foreign Line, 600,000 565,236.35 34,763.65 R3. Goods Service, Goods Home Line, 10,557.15 7,557.15 More live stock carried. R4. Goods Service, Others, Foreign Line, 20,000 38,162.95 18,162.95 More goods carried. R4. Goods Service, Others, Home Line, 10,000 2.50 9,997.50 No special goods train run, and no demurrage collected due to restriction of operation to the local service. R7. Profits on Central Mechanical Works, Home Line, 50,000 9,329.38 40,670.62 Repairs to rolling stock on behalf of Chinese Railways ceased after March 1939. RS Rents, Home Line, 100,000 188,987.57 88,987.57 All available space at the Railway Reclamation continued to be occupied during the year. RD Incidental Revenue, Foreign Line, 13,000 13,000.00 Through services suspended. Outstanding account due in 1938 collected in 1939; 40,000 5,000.00 35,000.00 Through services suspended.