✨ Railway By-Law Continuation




THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 765

certain distance, knowingly and wilfully proceed in
any such carriage beyond such distance without pre-
viously paying the additional fare for the additional
distance, and with intent to evade 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.

  1. 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 General
    Manager, 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.

  2. No return or periodical ticket will be available
    for special trains.

  3. 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 Clerk or any
    servant attached to the railway or wharf, such pas-
    senger or person may be expelled by such Station
    Clerk or other servant as aforesaid from the rail-
    way premises.

  4. No gunpowder or other explosive or dangerous
    material shall be carried by any passenger train.

  5. Each passenger, on paying his fare, will be
    furnished with a ticket, which he is to show whenever
    required by any Station Clerk 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 offend-
    ing against the provisions of this regulation shall be
    liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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 provi-
    sions of this section, shall be liable to a penalty not
    exceeding two pounds.

  9. 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.

  10. Any person, not duly authorized by the General
    Manager, 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.

  11. No male passenger shall be allowed to enter
    any waiting-room or carriage set apart for the accom-
    modation 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 ex-
    ceeding two pounds.

  12. Any person entering a carriage or compart-
    ment of a carriage containing the full number of
    persons which it is constructed to convey, except with
    the consent of the persons in such carriage or com-
    partment, and refusing to go out when requested by
    the Guard or other officer of the Railway to do so,
    shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding two pounds.

  13. 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.

  14. No person shall, without the consent of the
    General Manager 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.

  15. Loaded firearms are on no account to be taken
    into or placed upon any carriage, waggon, truck, or
    other veichle forming or intended to form a train or
    any portion of a train on the Railway; and every
    person so offending shall be liable to a penalty not
    exceeding five pounds.

  16. 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.

  17. 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.

  18. Dogs will be conveyed and charged for accord-
    ing 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.

  19. 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.

  20. Any person making use of insulting or abusive
    language to any Railway officer or servant, while in
    the execution of his duty, or obstructing any such
    officer 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.

  21. If any person omit to shut and fasten any gate
    or slip panel set up at either side of the Railway for
    the accommodation of the owners or occupiers of the
    adjoining lands, as soon as he and the carriage, cattle,
    or other animals under his care have passed through
    the same, he shall forfeit for every such offence any
    sum not exceeding two pounds.

  22. Any person crossing or attempting to cross
    any level crossing with any cattle, horse, or other
    animal, or with a vehicle of any kind, when an
    approaching engine or train is in sight, or the whistle
    or bell can be heard at such crossing, shall be liable
    to a penalty not exceeding five pounds.

  23. Any person driving or attempting to drive



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VUW Te Waharoa PDF NZ Gazette 1875, No 68





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πŸ—οΈ Continuation of By-Laws for Kaipara to Riverhead Railway (Clauses 6-28) (continued from previous page)

πŸ—οΈ Infrastructure & Public Works
25 November 1875
Fares, Penalties, Passenger Conduct, Explosives, Smoking, Dogs, Gratuities, Level Crossings, Railway Regulations