Pages 13 and 14 of Alfred Kitching's diary

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Going South
£ s d
Passengers 249 Receipts 65. 11. 6
Corrs’g week last year 246 Do 64. 1. 6

Going North
Passengers 248 Receipts 70. 18. 0
Corrs’g week last year 230 Do 60. 8. 0

Merchandise
Tons Cwt £ s d
Amounted to 595. 8 Receipts 168. 6. 10
Corresponding wk last year 657. 4 do 193. 19. 9

I left the meeting about ½ past twelve which is much sooner than I usually do owing to some business at the works.

Forenoon a drizzling rain – afternoon and

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evening fair but foggy.

7th day 4/11mo. A special meeting of the resident directors of the Auckland & Weardale Railway was held in the Railway office at 12 o’clock – a case of arbitration between a late contractor (a bankrupt) on the line [struck through] and this Co relative to some unsettled claims made by the former being about to take place and the assignees of said contractor having engaged Solicitors to watch the proceedings to which the Co most strenuously objected to. Resolved that the Secretary was to [struck through] inform the assignees forthwith that the Co would oppose such a proceeding, and that