474 BEPOET — 1891. 



say, 15s., as against £1 10s. per ton on the Eimutaka, while 

 wages must be increased in the ratio of about 8 to 6. These 

 new figures give — 



d. 

 Material and repairs . . . . . . 19-67 



Stores .. .. .. .. 0-57 



Fuel .. .. .. .. 5-34 



Wages— increase 8 to 6 . . , . . . 17-G2 



43-2 

 The cost for repairs is based on the assumption that these 

 would be done on the East Coast. 



Substituting this for locomotive-cost in D gives the cost of 

 working the incline at 113-98d., made up as follows : — 



E. 



113-98 



The engines used on the adhesion portion of the section 

 may be assumed to take a nett load of 69 tons up a gradient of 

 1 in 50, at ten miles per hour, while the average load taken 

 up the Hartz railway on the incline is 95-5 tons ; but, as the 

 loads may have to be taken through, and the trains may run in 

 conjunction, take this load of 69 tons as the same in both 

 cases. The cost per train-mile, reduced to the cost per ton,, 

 is as follows : — 



d. 

 A. — Average of New Zealand railways . . 0-812 



B. — Increased cost for the West Coast . . 1-094 



C. — Cost of working a long bank .. .. 1-23 



D.^ — Cost of working the Abt incline . . . . 1-43 



E. — „ „ „ assuming the 



Abt-engine cost as the Fell engines . . 1-65 



On the assumption that the cost of transport is the same 

 both ways over the pass, and taking for traffic the figures 

 which have been mentioned on several occasions by Mr. Max- 

 well — 150,000 tons per annum — upon the basis of the various 

 costs per ton arrived at under letters A, B, C, D, and E, an 

 estimate of the relative cost of working the two sections may 

 be arrived at. Consider, first, the incline section : take the 

 cost per ton, under B, for the line on the river-flat, and D for 

 the incline section. Then, for the tunnel line, take cost B for 

 the first seven miles from the Teremakau, C for a long bank 

 of 14-18 miles, and B for the tunnel. But, in taking B as the 

 cost of working the tunnel, it is on the assumption that it 



