B.-IMPERIAL CABLE SERVICE. REVENUE ACCOUNT for the Year ended 31st March 1922, 3,751 22,916 Headquarters Central Telegraph Office 3,044 Land Lines, England (No. 1 Cable) 3,385 Penzance 4,633 6,585 34,102 (a) The deficiency is due to the interruption of the Cable (No. 1) for 11 weeks during which period no revenue was earned. C.-POST OFFICE WIRELESS SERVICES. REVENUE ACCOUNT for the Year ended 31st March 1922. Administrative and Operating Expenses :Salaries, Wages and Allowances (other than those 4,645 16,240 To the ordinary Telegraph Service To other Government Departments 2,209 *16,595 3,525 16,842 18,804 * Includes for messages respecting Seamaras, £7,414; Mines, £3,768; Derelicts, &c., £3,736; Gales, £458; Ice, £17. BALANCE SHEET at 31st March 1922. D. CONTINENTAL TELEPHONE SERVICES. REVENUE ACCOUNT for the Year ended 31st March 1922. £ 6,113 Salaries, Wages, &c. 7,709 305 Miscellaneous 381 57,360 British share of Receipts in respect of Inward and Outward Calls 63,956 6,418 8,090 Repair of submarine cables-British 909 Use of circuits by other Services 293 1,005 share of expense 4,524 Inland Plant charges: : 971 Apparatus in London 971 - 11,904 740 Repeater Station at Dover 776 37 Cable Huts 13,709 13,720 599 Rent, Rates, Fuel and Light, &c. 751 Estimated Pension Liability for 595 the year 826 1,998 Depreciation 2,005 3,725 Interest on Capital 3,686 30,220 Surplus for the year 30,647 58,269 64,249 58,269 64,249 Revenue in respect of such plant is included. It has not been practicable to ascertain the annual expenses of plant used between London and the Provinces, although the are relatively small. As the Provincial calls number less than 2 per cent. of the total, the amounts involved E. BLACKFRIARS POWER STATION. REVENUE ACCOUNT for the Year ended 31st March 1922. 8,295 Bonus to Engineering Staff 8,969 1,711 Headquarters Charges 1,872 1,338 Pension Liability 1,395 20,164 21,990 Coal and Water : 847 Sale of Sub Station Accumulator Battery. Amount realised for scrap material 21,698 Coal 16,329 355 Water 261 22,053 16,590 7,708 7,836 4,336 Rates, &c. (including annual rental charges for Furniture at power station and accom. modation in the several General Post Offices) 4,577 173 Estimated Fire Insurance Premium 211 1.012 5,709 Incidental Expenses (clearing of ashes, cost of heating Power Station buildings, &c.) 962 Interest on Capital 61,155 Depreciation on Buildings has been calculated on the straight line method; the life being taken as 100 years. The number of units generated was 5,042,700: the number of units consumed was 4,044,191, which, at the annual cost of £57,003, gives an average cost per unit The relative figures for the year ended 31st March 1921 were 5,291,585 units generated and 4,220,597 consumed for light and power of 3.38d. (light, 4:15d.. power, 2 89d.). units consumed at a cost per unit consumed of 330d. The units consumed do not include units consumed in the Power House itself, nor those lost in transmission, &c. The charges for Interest and Depreciation on Capital include six months' charge in respect of the site, buildings, and plant of the new sub-station at Mount Pleasant, but the units generated include only about seven weeks' output from this sub-station |