JAN. 6.]

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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the person sending the same, and, if not taken away
within six hours after arrival at the station to which
they are consigned, may be forthwith sold, by auc-
tion or otherwise, without notice to the sender or
consignee; and payment or tender of the net pro-
ceeds of any such sale, after deduction of freight
and expenses, shall be accepted as equivalent to
delivery.
44. All empties not taken away within one month
after arrival will be sold to defray expenses.
45. 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 such periods as may be
defined in the tables of rates published in accordance
with clause 52 hereof; and if not removed within
such period may be stored or kept in the wagons at
the risk and expense of the consignees or owners,
and will become subject to such charges as may
from time to time be published in such tables. If on
the arrival of goods forwarded by railway the railway
sheds and stores shall, in the opinion of the General
Manager, be full, and the consignees or owners do
not take delivery within twelve working hours,
the General Manager may store such goods in any
private store or yard at the risk and expense of the
owners. In case of goods to be unloaded by the con-
signee, a charge will be made for demurrage accord-
ing to the tables of rates from time to time published
in the New Zealand Gazette, in accordance with clause
52 hereof, for each truck not unloaded within the
period named therein.
46. Should a consignor present a consignment note
with goods understating the quantity or weight of
such goods, he shall be liable to a charge of double
the ordinary rate on the difference between the
actual weight or measurement of the goods in ques-
tion and that stated upon the consignment note, in
addition to any penalty which may be inflicted under
the 154th clause of "The Public Works Act, 1876."
47. All tolls and charges and warehousing charges
must be paid immediately on demand to the person
duly authorized to receive the same, and, except
where a special agreement is entered into, no goods
will be delivered to the consignee until the payment
of such tolls and charges shall have been made.
48. If any person refuses or fails to pay the
proper charges for any goods carried on a railway,
or received on, stored in, or delivered from any
wharf, pier, jetty, shed, or yard connected therewith,
or any charge for demurrage, for one month after
demand of same by any person duly authorized to
collect such charges, any such goods, or, in case such
goods have been delivered, then any other goods on
the premises of the railway belonging to the same
person, may, by order of the Minister, be sold; and
the proceeds of such sale shall be applied first for
paying the said charges and the expenses of such
sale, and the balance, if any, shall be paid over to the
owner of the goods sold.
49. If any such goods are left on the premises of
the railway, and the owner thereof, or the person
liable for the charges thereon, is not known, the
Minister may cause it to be publicly notified that
such goods will be sold upon a day named in such
notice, not less than one month from the publication
thereof; and, if such goods are not removed and the
charges thereon paid before such day, the said goods
may be sold, and the balance of the proceeds of such
sale, after paying the charges upon such goods, shall
be paid into the Public Trust Office, and shall be
paid by the Public Trustee to any person establishing
a lawful claim thereto.
50. If the Minister shall have paid any claim for
goods for the time being lost on a railway, and such
goods are afterwards found, the claimant shall have

the option of taking such goods when refunding the
amount so paid to him; but if he decline to do so
such goods shall be sold, and the proceeds of such
sale shall be paid into the Public Account.
51. The Minister may from time to time fix or
alter scales of fares and charges for passengers and
goods carried on a railway, or received on or into, or
stored in, or delivered from any wharf, pier, jetty,
store, shed, or yard in connection with a railway, or
for demurrage on the use of any rolling-stock, or for
the use of any cranes, hoists, or other machinery for
loading or unloading of such goods, or for fixing the
rates of wharfage to be charged on all goods loaded
or unloaded from or into lighters, into or from ships
lying at any wharf, pier, or jetty in connection with
a railway, by a notice published in the New Zealand
Gazette declaring the date at which such shall take
effect. A printed notice of such fares and charges
shall also be fixed and maintained in a conspicuous
place at such stations as may be deemed advisable by
the Minister.
The Minister may authorize the General Manager
from time to time to alter such passenger fares and
rates temporarily by publishing a notice to that effect,
such notice to be affixed in some conspicuous place
at each station to which such alterations refer on the
line of railway affected.
The General Manager may from time to time
make time-tables fixing and showing the times at
which trains arrive at and depart from stations;
such time-tables, so far as relating to public passen-
ger trains, shall be advertised in a local newspaper
three days before coming into force, and shall also be
posted in a conspicuous place at each station on the
railway affected where tickets are sold.
The General Manager may, by the posting of
notices at such stations as they refer to, fix rules for
regulating the loading and unloading of carriages
and wagons and the weights they carry, for ordering
the receipt and delivery of goods, and for storing the
same.
The Minister may, from time to time, by a notice
in the New Zealand Gazette, make rules and regula-
tions for the guidance and observance of the officers
and men employed on the railways, and for the
conduct of the traffic on the same.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Alteration in the Regulations under "The Civil
Service Act, 1866."

ARTHUR GORDON, Governor.

IN pursuance of the power and authorities con-
ferred by the twentieth section of "The Civil
Service Act, 1866," and of every other power and
authority enabling me in that behalf, I, Arthur
Hamilton Gordon, the Governor of the Colony of
New Zealand, do hereby revoke the Regulation
number four, published in the New Zealand Gazette
of the seventeenth day of June, one thousand eight
hundred and eighty, and in lieu thereof do make and
publish the following regulation, to take effect from
and after the first day of January, one thousand
eight hundred and eighty-one, that is to say,-
4. The daily travelling allowance will be paid for
the day of departure and that of return from a
journey undertaken on the public service: Provided
that the officer shall have been absent from his usual
residence for at least eight hours of such day.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the
Governor, this thirtieth day of Decem-
ber, one thousand eight hundred and
eighty.

H. A. ATKINSON.