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GENERAL SURVEY

THIS year closed with very good financial results with a nett profit of $3,015,039 despite of the unprecedented number of typhoons and the exceptionally heavy rainfall which hit the Colony during the year. It has once again been one of many new records for this short line of 22 miles. The record figures are shown as follows:

(a) Gross railway revenue $13,288,745 was $1,768,579 more than

the record of $11,520,166 in 1963-64.

(b) Number of passengers 8,884,101 was 640,595 more than the

record of 8,243,506 in 1963-64.

(c) Goods tonnage 718,336 was 241,034 more than the record of

477,302 in 1963-64.

(d) Goods revenue $5,679,801 was $1,258,798 more than the record

of $4,421,003 in 1963-64.

(e) Number of live pigs by rail from China 1,003,174 was 177,027

more than the record of 826,147 in 1963-64.

(f) Number of passengers carried for any one day reached another new record by 117,272 on 5th April, 1964, Ching Ming Festival Day. This was 27,783 more than the previous record of 89,489 on 5th April, 1963.

2. Both the passenger and goods traffic continued to show an upward trend. (See Appendices XV and XVI).

3. Due to the continuous increase in population in the New Terri- tories the local passenger traffic has gone up again by 5.14% over the previous year. The total number of local passengers carried during the financial year was 7,985,613. The movement of passengers to and from China fluctuates unpredictably and the number of these passengers carried was 826,646, an increase of 27.50% over the previous year. (See Appendix XIV).

4. Over 98% of the goods carried this year was imported goods from China. The imported tonnage was 710,869, a considerable increase

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