Increasing Traffic.

The quantity of goods carried over the New Zealand Railways during the four weeks' period ending 2nd March was 11,539 tons greater than the total carried in any other period. The nearest approach was the 758,110 tons carried during the Departmental period ending 31st December, 1926 (the year of the Dunedin and South Seas Exhibition). But that period had twenty-seven working days in it as against twenty-four working days in this year's record. Analysed on this basis the improvement over the previous record is at the average rate of 4,000 tons per day.

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