8. His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, Mr. C. B. BURGESS, C.M.G., O.B.E., visited the Railway on 15th October, 1959 and travelled to Ma Liu Shui Station on a special train.
9. Mr. J. I. SCOTT and Mr. K. G. GOODCHILD of the Crown Agents for Oversea Governments and Administrations visited the Railway Workshops and Stores on 3rd December, 1959.
10. Sir Stephen LUKE, K.C.M.G., Senior Crown Agent, visited the Railway on 25th March, 1960 to look into the stores supplied through the Crown Agents.
TRAFFIC
11. Traffic earnings for the year under review amounted to $7,441,575 showing an increase of 11.75% over that of the previous year. Comparative figures are shown below:
1959/60 $7,441,575
1958/59 $6,658,860
Increase
$782,715 or 11.75%
12. Passenger Traffic. Passenger journeys, both local and non-local, have increased, the local by 14.15% and non-local by 31.56%.
13. To facilitate passengers visiting the cemeteries at Wo Hop Shek and Sandy Ridge, 32 special trains in addition to the normal service, were run on Ching Ming Festival Day, 5th April, 1959, and 25 on Chung Yeung Festival Day, 10th October, 1959. On these two days 85,560 and 28,466 passengers respectively were carried.
14. The figures for passenger traffic, showing number of journeys and revenue, appear in Appendices VI and VII.
15. Goods Traffic. Total goods traffic in the year increased by 17.86% in tonnage compared with the previous year. There was only a small increase of 0.04% in receipts due to the re-classification of certain kinds of goods in December 1958. Receipts on handling charges were also increased very slightly by 0.57%.
16. The principal commodities imported by rail into the Colony during the period under review are shown below:
Apples Beans
Bean noodles
Beer
Calcium carbonate
Canned goods
Cardboard
Caustic soda
12,474 metric tons
1,364 "" 1,357 4,081
19
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55
35
1,295
25
1,529
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59
3,726 >> 1,184
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