Past Year's Operating Details of the N.I.R.T.B.
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A CCOUNTS of the Northern Ireland ti Road Transport Board for the year ended September 30 last show an operating profit of £324,303, after making provision of £225,000 for depreciation, and allowing for war damage insurance. Gross receipts from traffic, compared with the previous year, fell by 7.04 per cent., whilst gross expenditure declined by 5.84 per cent. The gross receipts totalled £2.800,325, whilst expenditure amounted to £2,476,022. The actual surplus, after making a number of provisions, including £181,345 for taxation liability, was £10,134, which
reduces the debit balance to £288,563. Since 1940, the debit balance has been reduced by £322,991.
The number of passengers carried during the year was 72,097,052, and the number of miles run by the passenger vehicles was 21,728,031, both figures showing substantial increases.
On the freight side, the tonnage handled by the Board during the year totalled 1,849,205, a decrease, as compared with the previous year, of 1,115,624 tons, whilst the number of livestock carried was 686,840, compared with 563,776, an increase of 123.064 on the preceding year. The mileage run by the goods vehicles during the year was 12,799,140, a reduction of almost 2,000,000 on the previous year.
At the end of the year covered by the report, the Board owned 631 buses and coaches and 931 goods vehicles.
In the report it is emphasized that the supply position is exceedingly difficult, and whilst the Board has made representations in the proper quarter, there is no likelihood of such an immediate improvement' as will enable it to provide those services which it is anxious to give the public.