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COMPARATIVE YEARLY STATEMENT OF THE REVENUE, Continued.

Specify each separate Tax or Duty

according to the classifications employed in the Estimates.

Amount

Amount

collected in collected in Increase.

1937.

1939.

Decrcase.

Cause of Increase

or Decrease.

$ c.

C.

C.

5.-POST OFFICE.

Box Reuts,

12,796.00

15,500.00

2,704.00

More boxes lct.

Commission ou Money and Postal

Orders.

10,325.29

Message Fees..

976,923.45

10,161.08

126,901.82

164.21

850.021.63 Transfer of Commercial Services

to Cables and Wireless, Ltd.

Postage,

2,254.351.35 2,765,465.92, 511,114.57

Total ................. .$ 3,254,396.09. 2,918,028.82:

513,818.57

850,185.84

6. KOWLOON-CANTON

RAILWAY.

MAIN LINE.

R1. Passengers Service, Pas-

sengers, Foreign Line,.... R1. Passengers, Service, Pas-

sengers Home Line,......! R2. Pussenger Service, Others

Foreign Line,

R2. Passenger Service, Others

Home Line,

R3, Goods Service, Goods

Foreign Line,

618.239.88 302.841.34

278,632.95′

447,141.82 178,508.87

9.136.70 21.011.05 11,874.35

3,348.65 4.591.75- 1,243.10

161.408.79

510,311.48 348,002.69,

310,898,51

Curtailment of service through bombing of line.

Increased population.

Parcel traffic to Innkow.

Increased population.

Connection with Canton Jan- kow Railway.

R3.

Goods Service, Goods

Home Line,

17,201.99,

R4.

Goods Service,

Others

Foreign Line,

24.653.21

6,147.66, 71,712.15

7,451.22

65,564.49

R4.

Goods Service, Others

Home Line,

110.00

R7. Profits on Central Mechani-

cal Works, Home Line,.......

12,785.55

R8. Rents, Home Line,

49.928.35

1,825.00

58,505.43

148.581.57

1,715.00

45,719.88

98,658.22)

Increased activities of Lin Ma Hang Mine,

More special trains and in- creased demurrage.

Testing of new wagone for Chinese Ministry of Communica- tions.

Increased work for Chinese Railways.

More areas rented.

R9. Incidental Revenue, Foreign

Line,

12.445.49

92.675.44

80.229.95

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R9. Incidental Revenue. Home

Line,

38.230.05

28,705.06

RIO. Auxiliary

Operations,

Foreign Haulage,

92,606.24

62.136.78

30.469.51

9,533.90

Gains on exchange.

Less sales of confiscated goods And platform tickets,

Less Haulage of through trains.

R11. Interchange of Rolling

Stock, Foreign Line, .

7,713.99

7.595.71

118.28

Total

$ 1,297,940.29 1,782,287.74

834.867.77 850,520.32

7. RENT OF GOVERNMENT,

PROPERTY LAND AND HOUSES.

Buiklings.

Rent of Government Faruiture,.

113,596.49 175,011.06. 61.474.57

12,654.34 12.899.16

Increased teate.

244.821

Exchange.

Lands Not Leased (Permits for

Encroachments, &c.),

Laundries,

Carried forward,

309,724.97 378,185.69 63,460.72

5.200.00 5,040.00

441.115.80 566,135.01 125,180.11

More areas let on permit.

160.00

..

160.00)