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This information was published in 1966 in An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand, edited by A. H. McLintock. It has not been corrected and will not be updated.

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Comparison of Railway Operating Efficiency

	1939	1964
Average number of employees	24,342^*	24,515^*
Man-hours worked (Working Expenses Account)	40,411,309	51,366,916
Passengers carried (rail only)	23,265,768	25,734,513
Goods tonnage carried	7,539,012	11,090,174
Train-milage (revenue)	13,072,615	14,918,270
Gross ton-miles produced (thousands)	2,815,410	4,439,900
Increase in gross ton-miles	..	63.4%
Increase in average number of employees	..	0.7%
Increase in gross ton-miles produced per employee	..	50.7%

*Actual railway operating and maintenance staffs, (excluding Head Office, Accounts, Stores, and Subsidiary Services) were: 1939, 21,757; 1964, 21,399.

Co-creator

Albert Noel Palmer, Assistant Publicity Manager, New Zealand Government Railways, Wellington.