✨ Railway By-law Continuation




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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

end of the following Monday. All return tickets used
for return later than the day of issue must be presented
at the ticket window, and re-dated before the pas-
senger enters the train. Any person neglecting to
get such ticket re-dated will have to pay the ordinary
fare.

  1. Every passenger, on arriving at the station for
    which a ticket has been taken by such passenger, or
    to or from which such passenger may hold a periodical
    ticket, shall quit the station and premises of the rail-
    way; 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.

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

  3. Each passenger, on paying the fare, will be fur-
    nished with a ticket, which shall be produced when-
    ever required by any Station Clerk or authorized
    Porter, or by the Guard in charge of the train; and if
    it be a return ticket, it must be given up to be marked
    when required; and every ticket 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 (except as specified in clause 7 hereof) or a
    return ticket not used within the prescribed time,
    shall be deemed to be cancelled. Any passenger
    travelling under ary circumstances without a ticket
    shall pay the fare from the station whence the train
    originally started to the end of his journey. Any
    person offending against the provisions of this regu-
    lation shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding ten
    pounds.

  4. Tickets are not transferable; and any person
    transferring any ticket, or 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 ten pounds.

  5. Any person knowingly, and with intent to de-
    fraud, travelling upon the railway in a carriage of a
    superior class to that for which such person is pro-
    vided with a ticket, or altering a return or other ticket,
    shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding ten pounds.

  6. Tickets, whether single or return, shall be used
    by passengers only to convey them to the station
    named thereon, orto 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 ten pounds.

  7. No person will be allowed to break a journey
    by stopping at any intermediate station, and there-
    after proceeding by a subsequent train with the same
    ticket, under a penalty not exceeding ten pounds.

  8. 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 ten pounds.

  9. 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 ten pounds.

  10. 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.

  11. 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 open any carriage or
    truck, or attempt to do so, at any station or at any
    time during the journey, by means of a private key
    or other instrument, shall be liable to a penalty not
    exceeding ten pounds.

  12. 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 ten pounds.

  13. 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 ten pounds.

  14. 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 ten pounds.

  15. 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
    ten pounds, and may be removed from the carriage
    by any railway servant.

  16. 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
    ten pounds.

  17. 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 ten pounds.

  18. Any person writing any indecent words on
    any part of a railway, or the premises thereof, shall
    be liable to a penalty not exceeding ten pounds.

  19. 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 ten pounds.

  20. 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 ten pounds.

  21. Any person throwing stones, gravel, timber,
    or any rubbish on a railway, or at any engine, car-
    riage, or wagon thereon; or causing or allowing any
    animal to wander on a railway which is fenced on
    both sides; or doing any act which may obstruct the
    working of a railway or may endanger the lives of
    persons travelling thereon; or driving or attempting
    to drive any vehicle or animal across a level crossing
    or elsewhere on a railway when an engine or any
    carriages or wagons on the railway are approaching
    and within a mile from such crossing; or moving
    any part of the rolling stock on any railway, or leav-
    ing the same on any part of a railway, not having
    lawful authority so to do; or attempting to do, or



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πŸ—οΈ Proclamation of By-laws for New Zealand Railways (continued from previous page)

πŸ—οΈ Infrastructure & Public Works
17 April 1877
Railways, By-laws, Passenger conduct, Tickets, Penalties, Smoking, Dogs, Property damage