β¨ 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.
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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. -
No return or periodical ticket will be available
for special trains. -
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. -
No gunpowder or other explosive or dangerous
material shall be carried by any passenger train. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
Any person driving or attempting to drive
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Continuation of By-Laws for Kaipara to Riverhead Railway (Clauses 6-28)
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ποΈ Infrastructure & Public Works25 November 1875
Fares, Penalties, Passenger Conduct, Explosives, Smoking, Dogs, Gratuities, Level Crossings, Railway Regulations
NZ Gazette 1875, No 68