New Zealand Gazette – 1876 – No. 8

Page 101

✨ Railway Regulations Continuation

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 101

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 de-
fraud, 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 there-
after 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, wagon, truck, or
other vehicle 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 rail-
way 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
vehicles, sheep, horses, cattle, or other animals across
the railway on the level, either at an authorized
crossing-place or elsewhere, when an approaching
train is in sight, or when otherwise warned, shall be
liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds.
If any person pull down or injure any board
put up or affixed for the purpose of publishing any
list of tolls or notices, or any mile-post, or shall
obliterate any of the letters, marks, or figures on
any such board or post, he shall forfeit for every such
offence a sum not exceeding five pounds.
The General Manager shall publish the short
particulars of the several offences for which any
penalty is imposed by these or any other by-laws of
the railway, and of the amount of every such
penalty, and shall cause such particulars to be
painted on a board, or printed upon paper and pasted
thereon, and shall cause such board to be hung up or
affixed on some conspicuous part of the principal
station of the railway; and, where any such
penalties are of local application, shall cause such
boards to be affixed in some conspicuous place in
the immediate neighbourhood to which such penalties
are applicable or have reference; and such particu-
lars shall be renewed as often as the same, or any
part thereof, is obliterated or destroyed.
Any person in or upon any railway carriage or
station, being in a state of intoxication, or committing
any nuisance, or gambling, or wilfully interfering
with the comfort of any passenger, shall be liable to
a penalty not exceeding five pounds, and to re-
moval from such carriage or station as soon as shall
be practicable.
No driver or conductor of any cab, hackney car-
riage, omnibus, express, or other public vehicle, shall
ply for hire within the railway premises without

VUW Te Waharoa — NZ Gazette 1876, No 8

In 1865 Parliament moved to Wellington and sat in the Wellington Provincial Council Chambers (depicted). Gradually expanded into a larger complex of buildings, it was replaced by the General Assembly Library in 1899

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🚂 Continuation of By-Laws and Regulations for Government Railways (continued from previous page)

Domain🚂 Transport & Communications
Dated8 February 1876
KeywordsRailway regulations, tickets, passenger conduct, penalties, smoking, dogs, level crossings

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