Railway Regulations Continuation




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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
a license in writing from the General Manager or
other authorized officer; and any person offending
contrary to this section shall be liable to a penalty
not exceeding five pounds.
33. No person will be allowed to come upon any rail-
way platform for the purpose of removing any pas-
senger or luggage, unless required by a passenger
and engaged by him for such purpose, and no person
will be allowed to come upon any railway premises
for the purpose of soliciting custom or hire. Any per-
son attempting to evade or being guilty of a breach
of this section, or not quitting the premises when re-
quired by a Station Clerk or other railway servant,
shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding two pounds.
34. Any person, unless authorized by the General
Manager, who shall post or stick any placard or bill
within or on any of the property or premises, shall
be subject to a penalty not exceeding two pounds.
35. Any person who shall wilfully injure, wholly
or in part, any of the linings or blinds, or break or
deface any of the windows, or remove or injure any
number-plate or advertisement, or remove or ex-
tinguish any of the lamps, or otherwise damage any
railway carriage, shall be liable to a penalty not
exceeding five pounds, in addition to the payment of
the amount of damage done.
36. No article shall be sold on any railway pre-
mises without the consent of the General Manager;
and every person offending against the provisions of
this section shall forfeit a sum not exceeding five
pounds.
37. All persons employed on or about the railway
or wharf are strictly prohibited from using the re-
freshment-room; and every such person partaking
of intoxicating liquor at such refreshment-room will
be liable to instant dismissal.
38. Any person attending upon the refreshment-
room who shall supply an employé on or about the
railway or wharf with intoxicating liquor shall be
liable to a penalty not exceeding two pounds, and
shall be dismissed from his employment.

Merchandise.

  1. Neither Her Majesty the Queen nor the lessee
    of any railway will be accountable for any articles
    unless the same be signed for as received by some
    clerk or agent; nor will they, or any of them, be re-
    sponsible for the loss of or damage to money in cash,
    or bills, or promissory notes, or securities for money,
    or jewellery, trinkets, rings, precious stones, bullion,
    gold and silver plate, clocks, watches, mirrors,
    marbles, lace, furs, silks, writings, title deeds, prints,
    paintings, maps, or other valuables; nor for damage
    done to china, glass, musical instruments, furniture,
    toys, castings, or any other such hazardous or brittle
    articles, unless they shall have been declared as such,
    and a special agreement entered into for the same;
    nor for any loss or damage to any goods in their
    hands as carriers, or in their warehouse, or on their
    landing-places, arising from fire (except from their
    own engine or apparatus), the act of God, civil com-
    motion, or foreign enemies; nor for the loss of
    or damage done to goods put into boxes or packages
    described as empties; nor for damage of any goods
    or packages insufficiently or improperly packed, or
    containing a variety of articles liable by breaking to
    damage each other or other articles; nor for leakage,
    nor for any loss or damage whatsoever by reason of
    accidental or unavoidable delays in transit or other-
    wise.
  2. No claim for loss or damage will be allowed
    unless specified in writing, and made within two days
    after delivery in case of partial loss or damage, or
    within seven days after the due time of delivery in
    case of total loss.
  3. The General Manager will refuse to receive
    for carriage any goods which in the judgment of the
    officers of the railway may be of a dangerous nature;
    and senders of any dangerous articles will be held
    accountable for any damage arising therefrom, unless
    the contents shall have been declared at the time of
    delivery.
  4. Fruit, fish, meat, poultry, and any other perish-
    able articles, not taken away within six hours after
    arrival at the station to which they are consigned,
    may be forthwith sold, by auction or otherwise,
    without notice to the sender or consignee; and pay-
    ment or tender of the net proceeds of any such sale,
    after deduction of freight and expenses, shall be
    accepted as equivalent to delivery.
  5. All empties not taken away within one month
    after arrival will be sold to defray expenses.
  6. All goods are received and will be held by the
    railway subject to a general lien for money due, not
    only for the carriage of such goods, and for wharfage
    and warehouse rent, but also for any general balance
    that may be due from the owner. And in case any
    goods should not be claimed within three calendar
    months after their arrival at the station to which they
    are consigned, they will be sold by auction or other-
    wise, and the proceeds applied towards satisfaction
    of such general lien and expenses.
  7. All goods and merchandise, whether bonded or
    free, and all luggage, having arrived at its destina-
    tion, shall be removed by the consignees from the
    platform and sheds within twelve working hours; and
    any free goods, merchandise, or luggage not removed
    by that time, may, at the risk and expense of the
    consignee or owner, either be stored in the buildings
    belonging to the railway, or be carted or otherwise
    removed to any other place or building and there
    stored, and will become subject to such charges as
    may from time to time be duly fixed with respect
    to the railway; and any bonded goods or merchan-
    dise which shall not be removed within the period
    aforesaid shall be subject to the payment of the
    sum of two shillings per ton per day until the
    removal of the same from the railway premises.
  8. Any goods, merchandise, or luggage, arriving
    at any station, which shall not be removed from the
    railway premises within twelve working hours, may be
    stored at risk and expense of the consignee or owner.
  9. All tolls and charges and warehousing charges
    must be paid immediately to the person duly author-
    ized to receive the same.
  10. The above conditions, numbered from 39 to
    48, both inclusive, apply to all parcels and goods
    received by the proper officers of the railway at the
    offices and warehouses thereof, wherever situate.

Te Whakahaere mo nga Tangata eke ki runga.

  1. He tekiona whakamarama i etahi o nga ingoa
    e mau iho nei.
  2. E kore te tangata e tukua atu ki te tari tango-
    hanga tikiti i te mea kua tutakina te tatau mo te
    whakariteritenga mo te tukunga i nga kareti; a e
    kore e tukua tetahi tangata kia noho ki roto ki tetahi
    o nga kareti o te Rerewe, kia haere ranei i runga i te
    Rerewe, i te mea kahore ano i utua noatia e ia tona
    ekenga ki runga, kia whiwhi tikiti hoki.
  3. Ki te mea ka whakakinongia e te tangata tona
    tikiti kia kore ai e kitea te ra te nama, tetahi kupu
    whai tikanga ranei, e mau ana ki runga, ka tika kia
    utu ia i te moni kaua e neke ake i te rua pauna, a ka
    tika hoki kia utu ia mo tona ekenga ki te Rerewe ti-
    mata i te wahi i rere mai ai. A ki te kore te tangata
    e whakaari i tona tikiti, ka kore ranei e taea e ia te
    whakaari ki te Kai-tuhituhi, ki tetahi ranei o nga kai,
    mahi o te rerewe, ina tonoa, ka tika kia utua e ia te


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🚂 Continuation of Railway By-Laws concerning conduct, sales, and merchandise liability (continued from previous page)

🚂 Transport & Communications
8 February 1876
Railway regulations, conduct, penalties, merchandise, liability, Maori translation