The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 6, Issue 2 (June 1, 1931)
Your Own Railway
Your Own Railway
The following is the fourth instalment of the text of a little booklet explanatory of the services and facilities of the New Zealand Railways, recently issued by the Railways Publicity Branch and distributed to all schools throughout the Dominion.
The average distance that a ton of goods is hauled by rail is 66 miles.
By reason of these concessions and others, the railway revenue does not pay the full interest on loan capital, but the account could be squared if the average charge for the whole of the goods traffic, were raised from 2.32d. to 2.89d, (over 2 3/4d.) a mile per ton.
That easy way to make a railway profit has not been taken, because extra charges on the low rate goods could affect the prosperity of important industries and thus injure the public welfare.
(To be continued.)