✨ Railway By-laws Continuation




1798

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

behaving in a violent or offensive manner to the
annoyance of others on the railway or at any station
or platform thereof, or in any carriage thereon, or is
doing or attempting to do, or is counselling, aiding,
or assisting another person to do, anything which
may endanger the lives of persons employed on or
travelling on the railway, it shall be lawful for any
constable or any person employed on or about such
railway or carriages, without warrant or other
authority, to arrest and detain the person so offend-
ing, and to take such person as speedily as conveni-
ently may be before a Justice of the Peace to be
dealt with as the law directs; and all persons pre-
sent shall, when called upon, assist in making such
arrest.

  1. No return or periodical ticket will be available
    for special or for excursion trains, except when the
    ordinary time-table is suspended. Return tickets
    will be available for distances of twenty-five miles
    and under on the day of issue only; for each
    additional twenty-five miles or fraction thereof, one
    day's extension of time will be allowed for the return
    journey. Ordinary single tickets issued on Satur-
    days and Sundays will be available as return tickets
    until the end of the following Monday. Tickets
    used for return after the day of issue must be pre-
    sented at the ticket window, and re-dated before the
    passenger enters the train for the return journey.
    Passengers neglecting to get their tickets re-dated
    will be charged the ordinary fare.

  2. 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 railway
    premises.

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

  4. Each passenger, on paying the fare, will be
    furnished with a ticket, which shall be produced
    whenever required by any Station Clerk or author-
    ized 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 pre-
    scribed time, shall be deemed to be cancelled. Any
    passenger travelling under any 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
    regulation shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding
    ten pounds.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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 pro-
    visions of this section shall be liable to 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
    railway sheds, offices, platforms, or waiting-rooms, or
    any part of the railway premises, 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 railway servant shall, under any circum-
    stances, be allowed to receive any gratuity, 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.



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VUW Te Waharoa PDF NZ Gazette 1878, No 128





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πŸš‚ Continuation of Railway By-laws detailing passenger conduct, ticketing rules, and penalties (Clauses 7-25) (continued from previous page)

πŸš‚ Transport & Communications
17 December 1878
Railway regulations, Passenger conduct, Tickets, Fares, Penalties, Smoking, Dogs, Arrest