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Bailway Progress.
Speaking at the State luncheon.at Berry
on Tuesday, Mr. Fehon and Mr. Kirkealdie
gave some figures showing a most gratifying
increase in the railway revenue for the pre
sent financial year. For the past two years,
said Mr. Fehon, the railways and tramways
together had paid working expenses and
interes; .but for the current year the iirset
six months showed an increase of inearly
£250,000 on the returns for the corres
pending period of last year. There was no
hobetter thdrmometer of a country's condition,
observed Mr. Fehon, than its railway re
venue, and, that being so, it could not hbe
gainsaid that New South Wales was now in
a very prosperous condition. Referring to
trafile arrangements, Mr. Kirkcaldie men
tioned that on the morning of Common
wealth Day the railways carried to Sydney
between forty-five and fifty thousand people
before noon, and up to Friday night last the
railways had taken back to their homes
nearly 30,000 of the people who had taken
part in the festivities. On the.tram lines
during the last week approximately
3,200,000.people had been carried. "And
when it is remembered," said Mr. Kirk
caldie, "that on the railways there were no
accidents at all, and on the tramways only
two--and those two, gentlemen so old as to
be unab;le to help themselves-I think, apart
from the Commissioners altogether, we have
reason to be proud of the railway and
tramway staffs."
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