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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

No charge less than for 500 superficial feet per truck.
Australian timbers, rate and a half.
Round timber, string measurement; no allowance for bark, tops, butt, or unsound
wood.
Half-inch boards and under, half rate; no reduction in minimum charge.
One hundred palings, or one thousand shingles, as 100 feet timber.
Owner to do all loading or unloading.
For each loading or unloading done by the Railway, threepence (3d.) per 100
feet additional will be charged.
All sawn timber under one inch is taken as inch stuff in computing the mea-
surement.

Timber-Small Lots.
Small lots of timber which can be conveyed in one truck may be carried at double
rates. Minimum quantity, 100 superficial feet; minimum charge, one shilling and
two pence (1s. 2d.) per 100 superficial feet.
No charge for loading or unloading.

Class L- Live Stock.
Sheep, Pigs, Goats, and Calves, in Truck-loads.
Pigs, sheep, goats, and calves, in single-floor trucks, to be carried at ten shillings
(10s.) per truck for all distances not exceeding 10 miles; and for each additional
mile, fourpence (4d.) per truck per mile up to 50 miles; and for each additional
mile, threepence (3d.) per truck per mile up to 100 miles; and for each additional
mile, twopence (2d.) per truck per mile.
Two-floor trucks will be charged at one and a half the above rates.
Sucking pigs, in hampers or baskets, may be sent as parcels, according to weight.

Special Rate for large lots of Sheep.
The charge for freight of sheep, in lots of not less than 9,000, for distances not
exceeding 170 miles, to be £360. For each additional 1,000, or fraction of 1,000, a
charge of £40 will be made. No charge to exceed ordinary rate charges.

Cattle, in Truck-loads.
Cattle to be carried at fifteen shillings (15s.) per truck for all distances not
exceeding 10 miles; and for each additional mile, fivepence (5d.) per truck per mile,
up to 50 miles; and for each additional mile, fourpence (4d.) per truck per mile, up
to 100 miles; and for each additional mile threepence (3d.) per truck per mile.
All animals to be loaded and unloaded by owners, who must take entire respon-
sibility and risk.
No truck with live stock is to be loaded with more animals than can be con-
veniently placed therein.

Class M-Horses and Cattle; also, Calves, Sheep, Goats, and
Pigs, in small lots.

RATES OF FREIGHT.

Foals (one year old and under) to be charged half the rate charged for horses.
No truck with live stock is to be loaded with more animals than can be con-
veniently placed therein.

Class N.-Hay, Straw, and Chaff.
Haw, straw, and chaff, six shillings (6s.) per truck for distances of 5 miles and
under; and for each additional mile, sevenpence (7d.) per truck per mile up to 50
miles; and for each additional mile, sixpence (6d.) per truck per mile.
Owner loads and unloads. For each loading or unloading done by the Depart-
ment, one shilling and sixpence (1s. 6d.) per truck extra will be charged. Quantities
under 1 ton may be carried as Class B, pressed, at single rates; unpressed, double
rates. No charge to exceed truck rate.

Class O.-Posts and Rails, Firewood, Split House Blocks.
(Owners' risk.)
Tenpence (10d.) per truck per mile for each mile up to 50 miles; sevenpence-
halfpenny (7½d.) per truck per mile for each additional mile. Minimum charge, six
shillings (6s.) per truck; full truck charged for.
Owner loads and unloads. For each loading and unloading done by the Depart-
ment, five shillings (5s.) per truck will be charged. Small lots not exceeding 2 tons
may be carried as Class D.
A truck of firewood must not exceed 3 cords.

Miscellaneous.
WEIGHING.
Wool, fourpence (4d.) per bale.
Grain, one halfpenny (d.) per bag.
Potatoes, &c., one halfpenny (d.) per cwt