Railway By-laws Text




THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 637

By-laws, Rules, and Regulations for regulating the
Travelling upon and using that portion of the
North Line from Addington to Rangiora.

PASSENGER TRAFFIC.

  1. No person will be admitted to the booking
    office at any station whilst the door is closed for
    making up and despatching 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 ad-
    ditional 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 Super-
    intendent, 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, wharf, 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.

  8. Each passenger on paying his fare will be fur-
    nished with a ticket, which he is to show whenever
    required by any Station Master or authorized Porter,
    or by the Guard in charge of the train; and if it be
    a return ticket, he must allow it to be marked when
    required, and every ticket (whether single, return, or
    periodical) must be delivered up on the demand of
    any porter or servant authorized to collect tickets.
    Single tickets not used on the day of issue, or a
    return ticket not used within the prescribed time,
    shall be deemed to be cancelled. Any person
    offending against the provision of this regulation
    shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds.

  9. Tickets are not transferable; and any person
    using or attempting to use a transferred ticket, or a
    ticket the time for the proper use of which has
    expired, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding
    five pounds.

  10. Any person knowingly, and with intent to
    defraud, travelling upon the railway in a carriage of
    a superior class to that for which he is provided with
    a ticket, or altering a return or other ticket, shall be
    liable to a penalty not exceeding ten pounds.

  11. Tickets, whether single or return, shall be
    used by passengers only to convey them to the
    station named thereon, or to a station short of that
    destination. In no case, however, shall any "Cheap
    Excursion" ticket be used for any other station than
    that for which such ticket is issued. Any person
    using or attempting to use a ticket in violation of
    the provision of this section shall be liable to a
    penalty not exceeding two pounds.

  12. No person will be allowed to break his
    journey by stopping at any intermediate station and
    thereafter proceeding by a subsequent train with the
    same ticket, under a penalty not exceeding two
    pounds.

  13. Any person not duly authorized by the Super-
    intendent who shall sell or offer for sale any free
    pass ticket, or portion of a return ticket, shall be
    liable to a penalty not exceeding two pounds.

  14. No male passenger shall be allowed to enter
    any waiting-room or carriage set apart for the
    accommodation of females; and any person remaining
    in any such room or carriage after being warned to
    leave the same shall be liable to a penalty not
    exceeding two pounds.

  15. Any person, not being a railway servant, who
    shall open any carriage for the purpose of entering
    the same after the tickets have been examined and
    the carriage doors locked by the person appointed
    for that purpose, or who shall let himself out of any
    carriage, or attempt to do so, at any station or at any
    time during the journey by the use of a private key
    or other instrument, shall be liable to a penalty not
    exceeding two pounds.

  16. No person shall, without the consent of the
    Superintendent or other authorized officer, travel
    outside a carriage on any railway under any circum-
    stances, or get into or upon or quit any railway
    carriage when the train is in motion; and any person
    doing so, or attempting to do so, shall be liable to a
    penalty not exceeding two pounds.

  17. Smoking is strictly prohibited in any of the
    railway sheds, offices, or waiting-rooms, and any
    person found so smoking shall be liable to a penalty
    not exceeding two pounds.

  18. Smoking is strictly prohibited in any railway
    carriage except those set apart for the purpose; and
    any person found smoking in a carriage not set apart
    for the purpose shall forfeit a penalty not exceeding
    two pounds, and may be removed from the carriage
    by any railway servant.

  19. Dogs will be conveyed and charged for ac-
    cording to printed conditions, but will not on any
    account be allowed to accompany passengers in the
    carriages. Any person persisting in taking a dog
    into a passenger carriage shall be liable to a penalty
    not exceeding two pounds.

  20. No gratuity shall be under any circumstances
    allowed to be received by a railway servant on pain
    of dismissal. Any person giving or offering a gratuity
    to any such servant shall be liable to a penalty not
    exceeding two pounds.

  21. Any person making use of insulting or abusive
    language to any railway officer or servant while in
    the execution of his duty, or making use of indecent
    or blasphemous language in any carriage or upon
    any railway platform or premises, shall be liable to a
    penalty not exceeding five pounds.

  22. Any person in or upon any railway carriage
    or station, being in a state of intoxication, or com-



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VUW Te Waharoa PDF NZ Gazette 1874, No 50





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🚂 By-laws for Passenger Traffic on North Line (Addington to Rangiora) (continued from previous page)

🚂 Transport & Communications
10 September 1874
Railway regulations, Passenger traffic, Ticketing, Penalties, Addington, Rangiora, By-laws