NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE
PROVINCE OF CANTERBURY.

Vol. XXII. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1875. No. XLVI.

His Honor the Deputy-Superintendent directs it to be notified that the following Bye-Laws, Rules, and Regulations for the Canterbury Railways will come into operation on and after Monday the 18th day of October, 1875, and that all Bye-laws, Rules, and Regulations, previously published, are thereby repealed.

J. T. PEACOCK,
Secretary for Public Works.
9th October, 1875.

BYE-LAWS, RULES, AND REGULATIONS
For regulating the travelling upon and using of the Canterbury Railways.

PASSENGER TRAFFIC.

1. No person will be admitted to the Booking Office at any Station whilst the door is closed for making up and dispatching any train, and no Passenger will be allowed to take his or her seat in or upon any Carriage used on the Railway, or to travel therein upon the Railway without first having paid his or her fare and obtained a ticket.

2. Tickets will be issued conditionally—that is to say:—In case there shall be room in the Train for all the Passengers to whom Tickets shall have been issued. If there shall not be room for all such Passengers, the holders of Periodical Tickets shall have priority over holders of Return and Single Tickets, and the fare will be returned on application to the Station Master, to the holders of such Return and Single Tickets as shall be unable to obtain seats.

3. If any person travel or attempt to travel in any carriage on the Railway without having previously paid his fare, and with intent to avoid payment thereof; or if any Person having paid his fare for a certain distance, knowingly and wilfully proceed in any such Carriage beyond such distance without previously paying the additional fare for the additional distance, and with intent to avoid payment thereof; or if any Person knowingly and wilfully refuse or neglect on arriving at the point to which he has paid his fare to quit such Carriage, every such Person shall for every such offence be liable to a penalty not exceeding Forty Shillings.

4. If any person be discovered either in or after committing or attempting to commit such offence as in the preceding clause mentioned, all Officers and Servants and other Persons on behalf of the Superintendent, and all Constables, Gaolers, and Peace Officers may lawfully apprehend and detain such Person until he can be conveniently taken before some Justice, or until he be otherwise discharged by due course of law.

5. No Return or Periodical Ticket will be available for Special Trains.

6. Every Passenger on arriving at the Station for which he or she may have taken a Ticket, or to or from which he or she may hold a Periodical Ticket, shall quit the Station and premises of the Railway; and no person shall be allowed to loiter about the Stations, Wharves or premises, or any part thereof; and if any Passenger or other person shall refuse to quit the Station, Wharf, or Premises aforesaid on being requested so to do by any Station Master or any Servant attached to the Railway or Wharf, such Passenger or Person may be expelled by such Station Master or other Servant as aforesaid from the Railway Premises.

7. No Gunpowder or other explosive or dangerous material shall be carried by any Passenger Train.

Vol. XXII., No. 46.